Lubusz Voivodeship

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• Lubus province
• Lubuskie
• Lubuskie Voivodeship
• Lubuskie Voivodship
• Lubusz Province
• Lubusz Voivodship
• Voivodship lubuskie
• Województwo lubuskie
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1. a voivodeship (province) in western Poland

   

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2. or by its Polish name of województwo lubuskie or simply Lubuskie

   

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3. created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Gorzów Wielkopolski and Zielona Góra Voivodeships, pursuant to the 1998 Local Government Reorganization Act

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4. The province's name recalls the historic Lubusz Land (Lebus or Lubus), although part of the voivodeship in fact belongs to the historic region of Silesia

   

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5. The functions of regional capital are shared between two cities: Gorzów Wielkopolski and Zielona Góra

   

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6. Pictures of Lubusz

   

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7. Polish Government Link, Lands conquered by Mieszko I and Boleslaw I

   

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8. Official website of Lubusz Voivodeship

   

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9. Gorzów serves as the seat of the centrally appointed voivode or governor, while Zielona Góra is the seat of the elected regional assembly (sejmik) and the executive elected by that assembly, headed by the marszałek

   

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11. By conquest the first leaders of the Polans, Mieszko I and especially Boleslaw I added a number of surrounding territories to the newly established core Polish state, and Lebus Land or Lubusz in Lusatia came under Polish rule

    

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12. The voivodeship contains 42 cities and towns

    

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13. divided into 14 counties (powiats): 2 city counties and 12 land counties

    

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14. These are further divided into 83 gminas

    

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15. The counties are listed in the following table (ordering within categories is by decreasing population)

    

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