Sandomir Voivodeship

The Sandomir Voivodeship (red) in the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania

The Voivodeship Sandomir ( Polish Województwo sandomierskie ) was an administrative unit in the Lesser Poland Province as part of the Kingdom of Poland or Poland-Lithuania . It existed from the 14th century to 1795. The seat of the voivode was the city of Sandomir . The Sejm MPs met regularly in Nowy Korczyn for a general sejm . It had an area of ​​25,790 km². In 1474 the Lublin Voivodeship was spun off from the Sandomir Voivodeship.

In the early 16th century there were 80 cities, later at the end of the century 108. Of these, 21 were owned by the king, 24 owned by the clergy , and 63 privately owned. The largest city with around 3500 inhabitants was Sandomir, followed by Zwoleń , Połaniec , Chęciny , Tarnów with around 2500 inhabitants each, then Radom , Kozienice , Szydłów , Nowy Korczyn , Pińczów with around 1500 inhabitants each, a total of 30 cities with over 1000 inhabitants. In the 16th century there were also 2,951 villages, 212 of which had more than 200 inhabitants each.

The majority of the residents belonged to the Roman Catholic Church. Around 1600 there were about 380 parishes, 100 of which were located in a city, the majority belonged to the diocese of Krakow , while a north-western part of the voivodeship as far as the Pilica river belonged to the archdiocese of Gniezno . At the turn of the 17th century there were also about 97 Protestant parishes (Helvetic and Polish brothers ); 25 of them in Wiślica County, 18 in Sandomir County, the most famous of which was the town of Raków , founded by Protestants . There were also four Orthodox churches in a Ruthenian language island of the Zamieszańcy north of Krosno ( Bonarówka , Krosna , Oparówka , Węglówka ).

In the course of the first division of Poland in 1772, the southern part of the area went to Austria without Sandomir and was integrated into the newly formed crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria . Sandomir and the rest of the area in the Third Polish Division followed later.

The voivodeship was divided into seven districts: Sandomir, Radom, Wiślica, Pilzno, Chęcin, Opoczno and Stężyca.

literature

• Władysław Pałucki (editor): Województwo sandomierskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku; Cz. 2, Komentarz, indeksy . Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 1993, ISBN 83-01-09842-2 (Polish, online ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Województwo sandomierskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, p. 75
2. ↑ Województwo sandomierskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, p. 31
3. ↑ Województwo sandomierskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, pp. 78, 82
4. ↑ Województwo sandomierskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, pp. 81–82
5. ↑ Województwo sandomierskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, p. 85
6. ↑ Województwo sandomierskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, p. 56
7. ↑ Województwo sandomierskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku, 2008, p. 66