Warmia i Mazury (officially, the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodship) is an administrative region or voivodship of north-eastern Poland. The capital is Olsztyn.
It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Olsztyn and parts of Suwalki and Elblag voivodships as a result of Local Government Reogranization Act of 1998. The voivodship's name recalls the region's two historical lands of Warmia and Masuria (Mazury).
Warmia i Mazury (officially, the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodship) is an administrative region, or voivodship A Voivodship (also voivodeship, Romanian: voievodat, Polish: wojewĆ³dztwo, Serbian: vojvodstvo or vojvodina) was a feudal state in medieval Romania, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Serbia (see Vojvodina), ruled by a Voivod (voivode).
The capital is OlsztynOlsztyn (pronounce: ], German Allenstein) is a city in north-east Poland, historically capital of Warmia, on the Lyna River, with a population of 173,350 (2004).
Olsztyn County, OlsztynOlsztyn (pronounce: ], German Allenstein) is a city in north-east Poland, historically capital of Warmia, on the Lyna River, with a population of 173,350 (2004).
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