Wroclaw Voivodship (Polish: województwo wrocławskie) - a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Lower Silesian Voivodship.
Wroclaw has some 600.000 inhabitants, and 5 universities and 3 research institutes are situated in the city.
GEOGRAPHY To the south the voivodship is flanked by the picturesque Sudety Mountains, the northern part of the region, situated in the Odra River valley, is called Nizina Sląska (Silesian Lowland).
The key priorities of economic development of Lower Silesia are as follows: increase competitiveness of voivodshipÂ’s economy, develop small and medium-sized enterprises in order to generate new jobs, activate rural areas by modernisation agriculture and the food processing sector, develop tourism, which is connected to the development of recreational and spa service.
Wroclaw was first recorded in Thietmar Thietmar's chronicle: John, bishop of Wroclaw, newly established Polish diocese, is mentioned in year 1000 ("Johannem Wrotizlaensem") and later the city of Wroclaw itself ("Wortizlawa").
University of Wroclaw University of Wroclaw Many of the city's 10,000 Jews Jews were murdered during the Nazi Nazi genocide of World War II World War II.
The remaining German population of Wroclaw was transferred to Germany by Soviet- installed communist administration by the half of 1946, in line with the decision of the Allies.
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