Minsk Voivodeship

Minsk Voivodeship (red) in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 17th century

The Minsk Voivodeship ( Polish Województwo mińskie ) was an administrative unit of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic republic from 1566 to 1792, in what is now Belarus and Ukraine .

The seat was Minsk .

It was divided into the

• Powiat Minsk , capital Minsk
• Powiat Retschyza , main town Retschyza
• Powiat Mazyr , capital Mazyr

There was a castellan in Minsk.

history

The Minsk Voivodeship was established in 1566 and included the powiate Minsk and Retschyza. In 1569 the powiat Mazyr was attached from the Kiev Voivodeship .

In the course of the first partition of Poland in 1772, the eastern territories came under the control of the Russian Empire . In the course of the second partition of Poland in 1793, it came entirely to the Russian Empire and its territory was partially converted into the Minsk Governorate .

Voivodes

The voivodes were

• Jan Gronostaj (1566–1576)
• Mikołaj Pawłowicz Sapieha (1576–1588)
• Bohdan Sapieha (1588–1593)
• Jan Abramowicz (1593–1596)
• Andrzej Zawisza (1596–1598)
• Jan Dominikowicz Pac (1600–1610)
• Mikołaj Sapieha (1611-1618)
• Baltazar Strawiński (1631–1633)
• Aleksander Słuszka (1633–1638)
• Mikołaj Sapieha Pobożny (1638)
• Aleksander Massalski (1638–1643)
• Andrzej Massalski (1643–1645)
• Aleksander Ogiński (1645-1649)
• Gadeon Rajecki (1649-1654)
• Krzysztof Rudomina Dusiacki (1654–1655)
• Krzysztof Ciechanowiecki (1655)
• Jan Sebastian Kęsztort (1656–1667)
• Kazimierz Białłozor (1667–1680)
• Michał Siesicki (1680–1698)
• Władysław Jozafat Sapieha (1699–1709)
• Krzysztof Zenowicz (1709-1717)
• Krzysztof Stanisław Zawisza (1720–1721)
• Jan Kazimierz Żaba (1724–1754)
• Jan August Hylzen (1754–1767)
• Józef Jerzy Hylzen (1767–1770)
• Tadeusz Bużyński (1770–1773)
• Józef Radziwiłł (1773–1784)
• Adam Chmara (1784-1793)

literature

• Вячаслаў Насувіч: Менскае ваяводства . In: Вялікае Княства Літоўскае. Знцыклапедія ў двух тамах . 2nd Edition. tape 2 . Minsk 2007, ISBN 978-985-11-0394-8 , pp. 288-289 .