Volyn Voivodeship (until 1795)

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The Volyn Voivodeship (Polish: województwo wołyńskie , Latin: Palatinatus Volhynensis ) was an administrative unit in the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania in what is now Ukraine .

Volhynia (red) within Poland-Lithuania

Map of the voivodeship between 1793 and 1795

It had emerged from a vassal principality that had been ruled by descendants of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas . From 1566–1569 part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , it came to the Polish half of the empire as part of the Lublin Union and was part of the Ruthenian countries of the Province of Lesser Poland . The voivodeship existed until the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, but in the course of the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, a large part of the eastern areas was ceded to Russia. In 1795, the area came entirely to the Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire .

The seat of the voivode and the sejmik (representative of the estates) was Łuck (ukr. Lutsk ). At the same time, the General Sejmik of the Ruthenian countries in Sądowa Wisznia (Ukrainian Sudowa Wyschnja ) was sent.

Administrative division

• Powiat Łuck ( Powiat łucki )
• Powiat Włodzimierz ( Powiat włodzimirski ), Wolodymyr-Wolynskyj
• Powiat Krzemieniec ( Powiat krzemieniecki ), Kremenez

Voivodes

• Aleksander Fiodorowicz Czartoryski (1566–1571)
• Bohusz Korecki (1572–1576)
• Andrzej Wiśniowiecki (1576–1583)
• Janusz Ostrogski (1585–1593)
• Aleksander Ostrogski (1593-1603)
• Janusz Zasławski (1604–1629)
• Adam Aleksander Sanguszko (1630-1653)
• Mikołaj Jerzy Czartoryski (1657–1661)
• Michał Jerzy Czartoryski (1661–1680)
• Mikołaj Hieronim Sieniawski (1679–1682)
• Jerzy Jan Wandalin Mniszech (1682–1693)
• Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski (1693–1697)
• Jan Franciszek Stadnicki (1697–1713)
• Atanazy Miączyński (1713–1723)
• Stanisław Ledóchowski (1723-1725)
• Michał Potocki (1726–1749)
• Seweryn Józef Rzewuski (1749–1754)
• Franciszek Salezy Potocki (1755–1756)
• Józef Kanty Ossoliński (1757–1775 (resigned))
• Hieronim Janusz Sanguszko (1775–1795)

See also

• Volhynia
• Volyn Voivodeship (1921–1939)