Opole Voivodeship [SEP] inception
was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Opole Voivodeship and parts of Częstochowa Voivodeship, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998.
Originally, the government, advised by prominent historians, had wanted to disestablish Opolskie and partition its territory between the more historically Polish regions of Lower Silesia and Silesian Voivodeship (eastern Upper Silesia and western Malopolska. The plan was that Brzeg and Namysłów, as the Western part of the region, were to be transferred to Lower Silesia, while the rest was to
-west Poland)
- Borek, Krapkowice County in Opole Voivodeship (south-west Poland)
- Borek, Namysłów County in Opole Voivodeship (south-west Poland)
- Borek, Nysa County in Opole Voivodeship (south-west Poland)
- Borek, Olesno County in Opole Voivodeship (south-west Poland)
- Borek, Opole County in Opole Voivodeship (south-west Poland)
- Borek, Pomeranian Voivodeship (north Poland)
- Borek, Gołdap County in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship