Podolia Voivodeship

The Podolia Voivodeship (red) within Poland-Lithuania

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The Podolia Voivodeship (Polish Województwo Podolskie , Latin Palatinatus Podoliae ) was an administrative unit in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania . Erected in 1434, it was part of the Polish crown. For a short time (1672–1699) the area was under Ottoman rule . The voivodeship existed until the Second Partition of Poland in 1793. Together with the Bracław voivodeship , it formed the Podolia region . The area is now part of Ukraine .

The voivodeship had an area of ​​about 17,770 km².

The seat of the voivode was Kamieniec Podolski , and the regional assembly of estates ( Sejmik poselski i deputacki ) also met there. In addition, the assembly of estates ( Sejmik generalny ) of the Ruthenian countries in Sądowa Wisznia (Ukrainian Sudowa Wyschnja , Судова Вишня ) was sent from Podolia .

Administrative division

• Powiat Kamieniecki, Kamieniec Podolski
• Powiat Czerwonogradzki, Czerwonogród
• Powiat Latyczówski, Latyczów

Voivodes

• Piotr Odrowąż
• Michał Buczacki
• Hryćko Kierdejewicz
• Stanislaw Chodecki
• Michał Mużyło Buczacki
• Andreas (Andrzej) Fredro
• Ioannes Odrowąż to Sprowa
• Dawid Buczacki
• Jakub Buczacki
• Paweł Koła
• Otto Chodecki
• Mikolaj Mielecki
• Stanisław Odrowąż (since 1535)
• Ioannes Tworowski
• Ioannes Starzechowski
• Georgius Jazłowiecki
• Hieronim Jazłowiecki
• Tomasz Zamoyski (since 1618)
• Marcin Krasicki (1630-1632 / 1633)
• Marcin Kazanowski (1632 / 1633-1636)
• Stanisław "Rewera" Potocki (1636–1653)
• Wacław Rzewuski

See also

• Administrative division of the Polish aristocratic republic

literature

• Witalij Mychajlowskyj: Podilsske wojewodsstwo In: Entsyklopedija isstoriji Ukrajiny , Naukowa dumka, Kyjiw 2011, T. 8: Па - Прик, ISBN 978-966-00-1142-7 , pp. 304-305. (Ukrainian)

Web link

• Map showing the territory of the Podolia Voivodeship from 1772 (by Rizzi Zannoni )