Brześć Litewski Voivodeship

Brześć Litowski Voivodeship in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Brest Voivodeship in the Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic republic

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The Brześć Litewski Voivodeship or Brest Voivodeship (Polish Województwo brzeskolitewskie , Latin Palatinatus Brestinis ) was an administrative unit of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic republic from 1566 to 1795, in what is now Belarus , Poland and the Ukraine .

The seat was in Brest-Litovsk .

Other important cities were Pińsk (Pinsk) , Kamieniec Litewski , Kobryń (Kobryn) , Poltnica , Turów (Turau) , Biała Podlaska , Dąbrowica (Dubrowyzja) , Kodeń , Wohyń , Włodawa , Wołczyn (Woutschyn) .

It was divided into the

• Powiat Brześć Litewski , main town Brześć
• Powiat Pińsk , main town Pińsk
• Powiat Kobryń (1791–1793), main town Kobryń
• Powiat Pińsk Zarzecze (1791–1792), main town Plotnica
• Powiat Zapinski (1792–1793), main town Slonim

There was a castellan in Brześć , and a starost in Brześć and Pińsk .

history

The voivodeship was formed in 1566 from the Podlasie Voivodeship (or Trokai ) (to Powiat Brześć ) and from the areas of the former principalities of Pinsk , Turow , Kobrin , Dawid-Gorodok and Dubrowiza (to Powiat Pińsk ).

In 1791 the new additional Powiat Kobryń and Powiat Pińsk Zarzeche (main town Plotnica ) were formed and came to Poland. In 1792 the latter was renamed Powiat Zapynsky and the main town was moved to Stolin .

In 1793 most of the eastern part of the voivodeship came to Russia in the Minsk governorate after the second partition of Poland . In 1795 the voivodeship was dissolved and became part of the Slonim governorate .

In 1790, 301,188 people lived in an area of ​​40,600 km²

Voivodes

• Jerzy Ilinicz (1566)
• Jerzy Tyszkiewicz Łohojski (1566–1576)
• Gabriel Hornostaj (1576–1587)
• Mikołaj Michał Sapieha (1587–1588)
• Jan Kiszka (1589–1592)
• Krzysztof Zenowicz (Zienowicz) (1592-1615)
• Jan Ostafi Tyszkiewicz Łohojski (1615–1631)
• Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł (1631–1635)
• Mikołaj Sapieha (1638–1642)
• Teofil Iwan Tryzna (1642–1644)
• Andrzej Massalski (1645–1651 / 1652)
• Jerzy Klonowski (1652-1653)
• Maksymilian Brzozowski (1653-1659)
• Kazimierz Ludwik Jewłaszewski (1659–1664)
• Jakub Teodor Kuncewicz (1664–1666 / 1667)
• Melchior Stanisław Sawicki (1666–1668)
• Krzysztof Piekarski (1668–1672)
• Stefan Kurcz (1672–1702)
• Krzysztof Komorowski (1702–1708)
• Władysław Jozafat Sapieha (1709–1733)
• Kazimierz Leon Sapieha (1735-1738)
• Adam Tadeusz Chodkiewicz (1738–1745)
• Jan Michał Sołłohub (1745–1748)
• Karol Józef Sapieha (1748–1768)
• Jan Antoni Horain (1768–1777)
• Mikołaj Tadeusz Łopaciński (1777–1778)
• Jan Tadeusz Zyberg (1783–1795)

literature

• Województwo brzeskie in: Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich , Vol. 1, Warsaw 1880, p. 404
• O. Dsjarnowitsch: Берестейский повет до и после реформы 1565-1566 гг .: к истории административно-территориальных единиц в Великом княжестве Литовском (The Powiat Brześć before and after the reforms of 1565/1566 History of the administrative-territorial units in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. ) , in: Ukraina Lithuanica , Vol. 1, Kiev 2009, p. 45

Remarks

1. ^ From the Powiat Brześć Litewski and Powiat Kamieniec
2. ↑ in preparation for the Union of Lublin 1569
3. ↑ Summaryusz Generalny wszelkich Dochodów Rzeczypospolitey tak w Koronie iako iw Litwie z kalkulacyą mil kwadratowych, tak со do dymów, podatków, iako i ludzi , in: Dziennik rządowo-ekonomiczno handlowy. Zaymuiący różne Wiadomości, Rządowe, Handlowe, Ekonomiczne, Fabryczne, Kontraktowe na Dobra, Summy, i Produkta . Warsaw 1790, vol. 5 / II