Kiev Voivodeship

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Coat of arms of the Kiev Voivodeship
The Kiev Voivodeship (red) within the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania within the borders of 1635
Poland in the borders before 1660 (red). The areas ceded in 1667, including the east of the voivodeship with the capital Kiev, are shown in green

The Kiev Voivodeship (Polish Województwo kijowskie , Latin Palatinatus Kioviensis ) was an administrative unit in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1471 and in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania from 1569 to 1793 . Nowadays the whole area belongs to Ukraine . It emerged from a vassal principality of descendants of the Lithuanian prince Algirdas and was organized as a voivodeship by King Casimir IV . It was the largest voivodeship in the Union in terms of area; the voivode was (at least nominally) subordinate to the territory of the Zaporozhian Cossacks until the uprising under Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj in 1646.

The capital Kiev fell in 1667 in the Peace of Andrussowo together with the areas on the lower Dnieper to the Tsarist Russia . The capital of the reduced voivodeship, which kept its name, became Zhytomyr (Polish Żytomierz ). In addition to the Sejmik of the Voivodeship, the General Sejmik of the Ruthenian countries in Sudowa Wyschnja (Polish: Sądowa Wysznia ) was sent.

Administrative division

Administrative districts and areas of the respective district estates ( Sejmik poselski i deputacki ):

  • Powiat Kiev (Powiat kijowski), Kiev
  • Powiat Owrutsch (Powiat owrócki), Owrutsch
  • Powiat Zhytomyr (Powiat żytomierski), Zhytomyr

Voivodes

literature

  • Spisy pod red. Antoniego Gąsiorowskiego, t. III: Ziemie Ruskie, e.g. 4: Urzędnicy województw kijowskiego i czernihowskiego XV-XVIII wieku, opracowali Eugeniusz Janas i Witold Kłaczewski, Biblioteka Kórnicka, Kórnik 2002. 343, ISBN 83-85213-37-6 . (Polish)
  • Witold Bobiński. Województwo kijowskie w czasach Zygmunta III Wazy: study osadnictwa i stosunków własności ziemskiej. Warsaw 2000. (Polish)
  • Henryk Litwin. Napływ szlachty polskiej na Ukrainę 1569–1648. Semper. 2000. ISBN 83-86951-67-2 [also:] The Spatial Structure of the Kiev Voivodeship and its Impact on the Political and Social Life of the Gentry in 1569-1648. Structure przestrzenna województwa kijowskiego i jej wpływ na życie polityczne i społeczne szlachty w latach 1569–1648. (Polish)
  • Michał Kulecki. Wygnańcy ze Wschodu. Egzulanci w Rzeczypospolitej w ostatnich latach panowania Jana Kazimierza i za panowania Michała Korybuta Wiśniowieckiego. Warsaw 1997. ISBN 83-7181-001-6 . (Polish)
  • Dzieje rezydencji na dawnych kresach Rzeczypospolitej. Województwo kijowskie. OSSOLINEUM. 1997. ISBN 83-04-04369-6 . (Polish)
  • Zygmunt Gloger, Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski. Kraków 1903. (Polish)
  • Antoni Józef Rolle, Z przeszłości Polesia Kijowskiego. Warszawa. Red. Biblioteki Warszawskiej. 1882. (Polish)

Web links

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