Talk:Sandomierz Voivodeship (1939)

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Did you know... that Sandomierz Voivodeship (1939), a proposed administrative unit of the Second Polish Republic, was projected to be 24,500 km² and to incorporate 20 or 21 powiats?

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Population decrease

the article says that the population decreased to some 6,000 after the war. What was the population before the decrease? Any idea? That would be interesting to have in the article. Ostap 23:56, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will try to find some sources on it. World War One was a disaster for Sandomierz, as it was located right on the border. The Russians and the Austrians fought here for a long time, which ended in widespread destruction. Tymek (talk) 15:01, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Area

The area of the proposed voivodeship is not lcear- is it 24,500 km² or 24.500 km²? I think it is the former as 24.5 km² seems very small. I suspect the original author was using the period as a thousands seperator. This is confusing to a lay English reader. I have replace the periods with a comma.Wkharrisjr (talk) 17:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]