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Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Index Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth evolved over for centuries of its existence from the signing of the Union of Lublin to the third partition. The lands that once belonged to the Commonwealth are now largely distributed among several central, eastern, and northern European countries: Poland (except western Poland), Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, most of Ukraine, parts of Russia, southern half of Estonia, and smaller pieces in Slovakia and Moldova. [1]

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  1. 142 relations: Albert, Duke of Prussia, Łęczyca, Łęczyca Voivodeship, Baltic states, Belarus, Belz, Belz Voivodeship, Bracław Voivodeship, Brasław Voivodeship, Bratslav, Brest Litovsk Voivodeship, Brest, Belarus, Brześć Kujawski, Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship, Casimir IV Jagiellon, Castellan, Chełm Voivodeship (1793), Chernihiv, Chernihiv Voivodeship, Ciechanów Voivodeship (1793), Condominium (international law), Cossacks, Crown land, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Curonian colonisation, Curonian colonization of the Americas, District of Pilten, Drohiczyn, Duchy, Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, Duchy of Livonia, Duchy of Samogitia, Duchy of Siewierz, Encyclopedia Lituanica, Estonia, Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, Gniezno, Gniezno Voivodeship, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Grand Principality of Rus' (1658), Greater Poland, Grodno Sejm, Grodno Voivodeship (1793), History of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1648), History of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1648–1764), Jelgava, John II Casimir Vasa, Kaliningrad, Kalisz, ... Expand index (92 more) »

  2. Former administrative divisions of Poland
  3. Former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania
  4. Political history of Lithuania

Albert, Duke of Prussia

Albert of Prussia (Albrecht von Preussen; 17 May 149020 March 1568) was a German prince who was the 37th grand master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, became the first ruler of the Duchy of Prussia, the secularized state that emerged from the former Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights.

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Łęczyca

Łęczyca (in full the Royal Town of Łęczyca, Królewskie Miasto Łęczyca; Lentschitza; Lintshits, Luntshits) is a town of inhabitants in central Poland.

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Łęczyca Voivodeship

Łęczyca Voivodeship (Województwo łęczyckie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from the 14th century until the partitions of Poland in 1772–1795.

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Baltic states

The Baltic states or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term encompassing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

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Belz

Belz (Белз; Bełz; בעלז) is a small city in Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine, located near the border with Poland between the Solokiya river (a tributary of the Bug River) and the Richytsia stream.

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Belz Voivodeship

Bełz Voivodeship (Województwo bełskie, Palatinatus Belzensis) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Poland from 1462 to the Partitions of Poland in 1772–1795.

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Bracław Voivodeship

The Bracław Voivodeship (Palatinatus Braclaviensis;; Брацлавське воєводство, Braclavśke vojevodstvo) was a unit of administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Bracław Voivodeship are former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Brasław Voivodeship

Brasław Voivodeship (1793) was created during the Grodno Sejm in November 23 1793. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Brasław Voivodeship are former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Bratslav

Bratslav (Брацлав) is a rural settlement in Ukraine, located in Tulchyn Raion of Vinnytsia Oblast, by the Southern Bug river.

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Brest Litovsk Voivodeship

Brest Litovsk Voivodeship (Берасьцейскае ваяводзтва; Województwo brzeskolitewskie) was a unit of administrative territorial division and a seat of local government (voivode) within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) since 1566 until the May Constitution in 1791, and from 1791 to 1795 (partitions of Poland) as a voivodeship in Poland. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Brest Litovsk Voivodeship are former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Brest, Belarus

Brest, formerly Brest-Litovsk and Brest-on-the-Bug, is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the Polish town of Terespol, where the Bug and Mukhavets rivers meet, making it a border town.

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Brześć Kujawski

Brześć Kujawski (Polish pronunciation:; Brisk) is a town in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland.

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Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship

The Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship (Województwo brzesko-kujawskie, Palatinatus Brestensis) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland (later Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth), from the 14th century to the Second Partition of Poland in 1793.

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Casimir IV Jagiellon

Casimir IV (Casimir Andrew Jagiellon; Kazimierz Andrzej Jagiellończyk; Lithuanian:; 30 November 1427 – 7 June 1492) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 until his death in 1492.

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Castellan

A castellan, or constable, was the governor of a castle in medieval Europe.

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Chełm Voivodeship (1793)

Chełm Voivodeship (1793) was created during the Grodno Sejm on November 23, 1793.

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Chernihiv

Chernihiv (Чернігів,; Chernigov) is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within the oblast.

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Chernihiv Voivodeship

Czernihów (Chernihiv) Voivodeship (Województwo czernihowskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland (part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) from 1635 until Khmelnytsky Uprising in 1648 (technically it existed up until 1654).

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Ciechanów Voivodeship (1793)

Ciechanów Voivodeship (1793) in Poland was created during the Grodno Sejm on 23 November 1793.

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Condominium (international law)

A condominium (plural either condominia, as in Latin, or condominiums) in international law is a political territory (state or border area) in or over which multiple sovereign powers formally agree to share equal dominium (in the sense of sovereignty) and exercise their rights jointly, without dividing it into "national" zones.

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Cossacks

The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic Orthodox Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia.

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Crown land

Crown land (sometimes spelled crownland), also known as royal domain, is a territorial area belonging to the monarch, who personifies the Crown.

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Crown of the Kingdom of Poland

The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (Korona Królestwa Polskiego; Corona Regni Poloniae) was a political and legal idea formed in the 14th century, assuming unity, indivisibility and continuity of the state. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Crown of the Kingdom of Poland are political history of Poland.

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Curonian colonisation

Curonian colonisation refers to the colonisation efforts of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (today part of Latvia).

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Curonian colonization of the Americas

The Curonian colonization of the Americas was performed by the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (now Latvia), which was the second-smallest state to colonise the Americas, after the Knights of Malta.

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District of Pilten

The District of Pilten (Powiat piltyński, Kreis Pilten) was an autonomous district of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and also in union with the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia.

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Drohiczyn

Drohiczyn (Drohičinas/Drogičinas, translit, translit) is a town in Siemiatycze County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland.

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Duchy

A duchy, also called a dukedom, is a country, territory, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess, a ruler hierarchically second to the king or queen in Western European tradition.

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Duchy of Courland and Semigallia

The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (Ducatus Curlandiæ et Semigalliæ; Herzogtum Kurland und Semgallen; Kurzemes un Zemgales hercogiste; Kuršo ir Žiemgalos kunigaikštystė; Księstwo Kurlandii i Semigalii) was a duchy in the Baltic region, then known as Livonia, that existed from 1561 to 1569 as a nominally vassal state of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and subsequently made part of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom from 1569 to 1726 and incorporated into the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1726.

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Duchy of Livonia

The Duchy of Livonia, also referred to as Polish Livonia or Livonia, was a territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that existed from 1561 to 1621.

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Duchy of Samogitia

The Duchy of Samogitia (Žemaičių seniūnija, Žemaitėjės seniūnėjė, Księstwo żmudzkie) was an administrative unit of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1422 (and from 1569, a member country of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth). Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Duchy of Samogitia are former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Duchy of Siewierz

The Duchy of Siewierz was a Silesian duchy with its capital in Siewierz.

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Encyclopedia Lituanica

Encyclopedia Lituanica (likely named after Encyclopædia Britannica or Encyclopedia Americana) is a six-volume (about 3600-page) English language encyclopedia about Lithuania and Lithuania-related topics.

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Estonia

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

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Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg

Frederick William (Friedrich Wilhelm; 16 February 1620 – 29 April 1688) was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia, from 1640 until his death in 1688.

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Gniezno

Gniezno (Gnesna) is a city in central-western Poland, about east of Poznań.

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Gniezno Voivodeship

Gniezno Voivodeship (Województwo Gnieźnieńskie, Palatinatus Gnesnensis) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland for a short time from 1768, when it was cut from the Kalisz Voivodeship, to the Second Partition of Poland in 1793.

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Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 partitions of Poland–Lithuania.

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Grand Master of the Teutonic Order

The grand master of the Teutonic Order (Hochmeister des Deutschen Ordens; Magister generalis Ordo Teutonicus) is the supreme head of the Teutonic Order.

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Grand Principality of Rus' (1658)

Grand Principality of Rus' (Ukrainian: Велике Князівство Руське, Polish: Wielkie Księstwo Ruskie), also known in historiography as Grand Principality of Ruthenia, was the project of the state as a member of the Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth in the territory of Kiev Voivodeship, Bracław Voivodeship and Chernihiv Voivodeship.

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Greater Poland

Greater Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska (Polonia Maior), is a Polish historical region of west-central Poland.

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Grodno Sejm

Grodno Sejm (Sejm grodzieński; Gardino seimas) was the last Sejm (session of parliament) of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Grodno Voivodeship (1793)

Grodno Voivodeship (1793) was created during the Grodno Sejm on November 23, 1793. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Grodno Voivodeship (1793) are former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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History of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1648)

The history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1648) covers a period in the history of Poland and Lithuania, before their joint state was subjected to devastating wars in the mid-17th century. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1648) are political history of Lithuania.

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History of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1648–1764)

The history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1648–1764) covers a period in the history of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, from the time their joint state became the theater of wars and invasions fought on a great scale in the middle of the 17th century, to the time just before the election of Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1648–1764) are political history of Lithuania and political history of Poland.

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Jelgava

Jelgava is a state city in central Latvia about southwest of Riga.

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John II Casimir Vasa

John II Casimir Vasa (Jan II Kazimierz Waza; Jonas Kazimieras Vaza; 22 March 1609 – 16 December 1672) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1648 to his abdication in 1668 as well as a claimant to the throne of Sweden from 1648 to 1660.

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Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad (p), known as Königsberg until 1946 (ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbʲerk; Królewiec), is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland.

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Kalisz

Kalisz is a city in central Poland, and the second-largest city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, with 97,905 residents (December 2021).

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Kalisz Voivodeship (1314–1793)

Kalisz Voivodeship 1314–1793 (Województwo Kaliskie, Palatinatus Calisiensis) was an administrative unit of Poland from 1314 to the Second Partition of Poland in 1793.

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Kamianets-Podilskyi

Kamianets-Podilskyi (Кам'янець-Подільський) is a city on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi.

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Königsberg

Königsberg (Królewiec, Karaliaučius, Kyonigsberg) is the historic German and Prussian name of the medieval city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia.

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Kiev Voivodeship

The Kiev Voivodeship (Województwo kijowskie; Palatinatus Kioviensis; Kyivske voievodstvo) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1471 until 1569 and of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1793, as part of Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Kiev Voivodeship are former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.

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Kraków

(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.

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Kraków Voivodeship (14th century – 1795)

The Kraków Voivodeship (Województwo Krakowskie, Palatinatus Cracoviensis) was a voivodeship (province) in the Kingdom of Poland from the 14th century to the partition of Poland in 1795 (see History of Poland during the Piast dynasty, Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569), and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth).

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Land (administrative unit of Poland)

Land is a historical unit of administration in Poland and Ruthenia.

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Latvia

Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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Lauenburg and Bütow Land

Lauenburg and Bütow Land (Länder or italic, Lãbòrskò-bëtowskô Zemia, Ziemia lęborsko-bytowska) formed a historical region in the western part of Pomerelia (Polish and papal historiography) or in the eastern part of Farther Pomerania (German historiography).

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Lesser Poland

Lesser Poland, often known by its Polish name Małopolska (Polonia Minor), is a historical region situated in southern and south-eastern Poland.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.

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Livonian War

The Livonian War (1558–1583) was fought for control of Old Livonia (in the territory of present-day Estonia and Latvia).

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Lublin

Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland.

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Lublin Voivodeship (1474–1795)

Lublin Voivodeship (Województwo Lubelskie; Palatinatus Lublinensis) was an administrative region of the Kingdom of Poland created in 1474 out of three eastern counties of Sandomierz Voivodeship and lasting until the Partitions of Poland in 1795.

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Lutsk

Lutsk (Луцьк,; see below for other names) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine.

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Lviv

Lviv (Львів; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.

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Malbork

Malbork is a town in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.

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Malbork Voivodeship

The Malbork Voivodeship (Województwo malborskie), after Partitions of Poland also referred to as the Malbork Land (Polish: Ziemia malborska), was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland from 1454/1466 until the Partitions of Poland in 1772–1795.

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Masovian Voivodeship (1526–1795)

Masovian Voivodeship was an administrative region of the Kingdom of Poland, and of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, from the 1526 to the partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1795).

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Merecz Voivodeship

Merecz Voivodeship (1793) was created during the Grodno Sejm in November 23 1793. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Merecz Voivodeship are former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Minsk

Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers.

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Minsk Voivodeship

Minsk Voivodeship (Menskaje vajavodztva; Województwo mińskie; Minsko vaivadija; Palatinatus Minscensis) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1566 and later in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, until the partitions of the Commonwealth in 1793. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Minsk Voivodeship are former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Moldova

Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, on the northeastern corner of the Balkans.

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Mstsislaw

Mstislaw or Mstislavl (Mscislaŭ,; Мстиславль,; Mścisław, Mstislavlis) is a town in Mogilev Region, Belarus.

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Mstsislaw Voivodeship

Mstislaw Voivodeship or Mścisław Voivodeship (Амсьціслаўскае ваяводзтва; Województwo Mścisławskie; Palatinatus Mscislaviensis) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (from 1569 the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth), since the 15th century until the Partitions of Poland in 1795. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Mstsislaw Voivodeship are former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Novogrudok

Novogrudok or Navahrudak (Навагрудак; Новогрудок; Nowogródek, Naugardukas; נאַוואַראַדאָק) is a town in Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Nowogródek Voivodeship (1507–1795)

Nowogródek Voivodeship (województwo nowogródzkie; Palatinatus Novogrodensis; Naugarduko vaivadija; Наваградзкае ваяводзтва) was a voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1507 to 1795, with the capital in the town of Nowogródek (now Novogrudok, Belarus). Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Nowogródek Voivodeship (1507–1795) are former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Offices in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

This article discusses the organizational and administrative structure of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Płock

Płock (pronounced) is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, in the Masovian Voivodeship.

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Płock Voivodeship (1495–1793)

Płock Voivodeship (Województwo Płockie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland from 1495 until the partitions of Poland in 1795.

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Podlaskie Voivodeship (1513–1795)

The Podlaskie Voivodeship was formed in 1513 by Sigismund I the Old as a voivodeship in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, from a split off part of the Trakai Voivodeship. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Podlaskie Voivodeship (1513–1795) are former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Podolian Voivodeship

The Podolian Voivodeship or Palatinate of Podolia was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland, from 1434 until 1793, except for the period of Ottoman occupation (1672–1699), when the region was organized as Podolia Eyalet.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the First Polish Republic, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth are political history of Lithuania and political history of Poland.

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Polish–Lithuanian–Muscovite Commonwealth

The Polish–Lithuanian–Muscovite Commonwealth was a proposed state that would have been based on a personal union between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Tsardom of Russia.

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Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth

The Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth (lit, Trijų Tautų Respublika, Річ Посполита ТрьохНародів) was a proposed European state in the 17th century that would have replaced the existing Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, but it was never actually formed.

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Polish–Russian War (1609–1618)

The Polish–Russian War was a conflict fought between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Tsardom of Russia from 1609 to 1618.

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Polotsk

Polotsk (Полоцк) or Polatsk (Polack) is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus.

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Polotsk Voivodeship

Polotsk or Połock Voivodeship (Palatinatus Polocensis; Polocko vaivadija; Województwo połockie, Полацкае ваяводства) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Grand Duchy of Lithuania) since the 15th century until the partitions of Poland in 1793. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Polotsk Voivodeship are former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Powiat

A powiat is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture (LAU-1) in other countries.

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Poznań

Poznań is a city on the River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region.

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Poznań Voivodeship (14th century – 1793)

Poznań Voivodeship 14th century to 1793 (Palatinatus Posnaniensis, Województwo Poznańskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from the 14th century to the Second Partition of Poland in 1793.

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Prince-Bishopric of Warmia

The Prince-Bishopric of Warmia (Biskupie Księstwo Warmińskie; Fürstbistum Ermland) was a semi-independent ecclesiastical state, ruled by the incumbent ordinary of the Warmia see and comprising one third of the then diocesan area.

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Province (Poland)

Province was the largest territorial subdivision in medieval and Renaissance-era Poland, and later in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The term designated each of the two largest constituents of the state: depending on the period, including Greater Poland, Lesser Poland and (upon the formation of the Commonwealth) the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Prussia (region)

Prussia (Prusy; Prūsija; Пруссия; Old Prussian: Prūsa; Preußen; /label/label) is a historical region in Central Europe on the south-eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, that ranges from the Vistula delta in the west to the end of the Curonian Spit in the east and extends inland as far as Masuria, divided between Poland, Russia and Lithuania.

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Raseiniai

Raseiniai (Samogitian: Raseinē) is a city in Lithuania.

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Rawa Mazowiecka

Rawa Mazowiecka is a town in central Poland, with 16,090 inhabitants (2022).

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Rawa Voivodeship

Rawa Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland since 15th century until the partitions of Poland in 1795.

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Reformation

The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

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Royal Prussia

Royal Prussia (Prusy Królewskie; Königlich-Preußen or Preußen Königlichen Anteils, Królewsczé Prësë) or Polish PrussiaAnton Friedrich Büsching, Patrick Murdoch.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Ruthenian Voivodeship

The Ruthenian Voivodeship (Palatinatus russiae; Województwo ruskie; Ruske voievodstvo) was a voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1434 until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, with its center in the city of Lwów (now Lviv).

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Sandomierz

Sandomierz (pronounced:; Sandomiria, Tsouzmer, Tsoyzmer) is a historic town in south-eastern Poland with 23,863 inhabitants, situated on the Vistula River near its confluence with the San, in the Sandomierz Basin.

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Sandomierz Voivodeship

Sandomierz Voivodeship (Województwo Sandomierskie, Palatinatus Sandomirensis) was a unit of administration and local government in Poland from the 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772–1795.

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Second Partition of Poland

The 1793 Second Partition of Poland was the second of three partitions (or partial annexations) that ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795.

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Second Peace of Thorn (1466)

The Peace of Thorn or Toruń of 1466, also known as the Second Peace of Thorn or Toruń (drugi pokój toruński; Zweiter Friede von Thorn), was a peace treaty signed in the Hanseatic city of Thorn (Toruń) on 19 October 1466 between the Polish king Casimir IV Jagiellon and the Teutonic Knights, which ended the Thirteen Years' War, the longest of the Polish–Teutonic Wars.

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Sieradz

Sieradz (Siradia, שעראַדז, שערעדז, שעריץ, 1941-45 Schieratz) is a city on the Warta river in central Poland with 40,891 inhabitants (2021).

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Sieradz Voivodeship (1339–1793)

Sieradz Voivodeship (Województwo sieradzkie, Palatinatus Siradiensis) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, from 1339 to the second partition of Poland in 1793.

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Sigismund II Augustus

Sigismund II Augustus (Zygmunt II August, Žygimantas Augustas; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548.

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Slovakia

Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Starosta

Starosta or starost (Cyrillic: старост/а, Latin: capitaneus, Starost, Hauptmann) is a community elder in some Slavic lands.

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Starostwo

Starostwo (literally "eldership") is an administrative unit established from the 14th century in the Polish Crown and later in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until the partition of Poland in 1795.

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State of the Teutonic Order

The State of the Teutonic Order (Civitas Ordinis Theutonici) was a theocratic state located along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea in northern Europe. It was formed by the knights of the Teutonic Order during the early 13th century Northern Crusades in the region of Prussia. In 1237, the Livonian Brothers of the Sword merged with the Teutonic Order of Prussia and became known as its branch — the Livonian Order (while their state, Terra Mariana, covering present-day Estonia and Latvia, became part of the State of the Teutonic Order).

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Szepes County

Szepes (Spiš; Scepusium, Spisz, Zips) was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary, called Scepusium before the late 19th century.

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Territorial evolution of Poland

Poland is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north.

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Territory

A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, belonging or connected to a particular country, person, or animal.

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Teutonic Order

The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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Third Partition of Poland

The Third Partition of Poland (1795) was the last in a series of the Partitions of Poland–Lithuania and the land of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth among Prussia, the Habsburg monarchy, and the Russian Empire which effectively ended Polish–Lithuanian national sovereignty until 1918.

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Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466)

This is the 1454-1466 Polish-Teutonic War.

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Trakai

Trakai (see names section for alternative and historic names) is a city and lake resort in Lithuania.

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Trakai Voivodeship

Trakai Voivodeship, Trakai Palatinate, or Troki Voivodeship (Palatinatus Trocensis, Trakų vaivadija, Województwo trockie), was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1413 until 1795. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Trakai Voivodeship are former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Treaty of Bromberg

The Treaty of Bromberg (Latin: Pacta Bydgostensia) or Treaty of Bydgoszcz was a treaty between John II Casimir of Poland and Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia that was ratified at Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) on 6 November 1657.

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Treaty of Hadiach

The Treaty of Hadiach (ugoda hadziacka; гадяцький договір) was a treaty signed on 16 September 1658 in Hadiach (Hadziacz, Hadiacz, Гадяч) between representatives of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (representing Poland and representing Lithuania) and Zaporozhian Cossacks (represented by Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky and starshina Yuri Nemyrych, the architect of the treaty, and Pavlo Teteria).

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Treaty of Lubowla

Treaty of Lubowla of 1412 was a treaty between Władysław II, King of Poland, and Sigismund of Luxemburg, King of Hungary.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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Union of Lublin

The Union of Lublin (Unia lubelska; Liublino unija) was signed on 1 July 1569 in Lublin, Poland, and created a single state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largest countries in Europe at the time.

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Vilnius

Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states.

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Vilnius Voivodeship

The Vilnius Voivodeship (Palatinatus Vilnensis, Vilniaus vaivadija, województwo wileńskie, Віленскае ваяводства) was one of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's voivodeships, which existed from the voivodeship's creation in 1413 to the destruction of the Lithuanian state in 1795. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Vilnius Voivodeship are former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Vitebsk

Vitebsk or Vitsyebsk (Viciebsk,; Витебск) is a city in northern Belarus.

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Vitebsk Voivodeship

Vitebsk Voivodeship (Віцебскае ваяводзтва; Województwo witebskie; Palatinatus Vitebsciensis) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (from 1569 Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) from the 15th century until the partitions of Poland in 1795. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Vitebsk Voivodeship are former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Voivode

Voivode, also spelled voivod, voievod or voevod and also known as vaivode, voivoda, vojvoda or wojewoda, is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe in use since the Early Middle Ages.

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Voivodeship

A voivodeship or voivodate is the area administered by a voivode (governor) in several countries of central and eastern Europe.

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Voivodeships of Poland

A voivodeship (województwo; plural: województwa) is the highest-level administrative division of Poland, corresponding to a province in many other countries.

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Volhynian Voivodeship (1569–1795)

Volhynian Voivodeship (Województwo wołyńskie, Palatinatus Volhynensis, Волинське воєводство, Volynske voievodstvo) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1566 until 1569 and of the Polish Crown within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from the 1569 Union of Lublin until the Third Partition of Poland in 1795. Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Volhynian Voivodeship (1569–1795) are former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Warsaw

Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland.

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Władysław IV Vasa

Władysław IV Vasa or Ladislaus IV of Poland (9 June 1595 – 20 May 1648) was King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and claimant of the thrones of Sweden and Russia.

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Włodzimierz Voivodeship

Włodzimierz Voivodeship was created during the Grodno Sejm in November 23 1793.

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Znamensk

Znamensk (Знаменск) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.

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See also

Former administrative divisions of Poland

Former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Political history of Lithuania

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivisions_of_the_Polish–Lithuanian_Commonwealth

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