The Volhynian Counties Administration was a provisional administrative division of the Civil Administration of the Eastern Lands controlled by the Second Polish Republic, that existed from 7 June 1919 to 9 September 1919.Journal of the Laws of the Civil Administration of the Eastern Lands, 1919, no. 5, position 41. Its seat was located in Kowel.
History The Volhynian Counties Administration was a provisional administrative division, acting as a district of the Civil Administration of the Eastern Lands controlled by the Second Polish Republic. It was established on 7 June 1919, from the area of the Ukrainian SSR, that was occupied by Poland during the Polish–Soviet War. Its seat was located in the town of Kowel (now Kovel, Ukraine), and its area was divided into three counties, which were: Kowel, Łuck, and Włodzimierz.Bożena Łazowska: Census of the Eastern Lands of the Second Polish Republic in 1919, in "Wiadomości Statystyczne. The Polish Statistician, 2019, vol. 64, 10, 63–76 DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0013.7586. It was incorporated into then-established Volhynian District on 9 September 1919.Journal of the Laws of the Civil Administration of the Eastern Lands, 1919, no. 17, position 153.Adam Janusz Mielcarek: Węzłowe zagadnienia ustrojowe Zarządu Cywilnego Ziem Wschodnich (1919-1920), w świetle aktów normatywnych . Toruń.
Subdivisions It was divided into counties. Those were: Kowel County (seat: Kovel); Łuck County (seat: Lutsk); Włodzimierz County (seat: Volodymyr).
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