Vitebsk Voivodeship

Vitebsk Voivodeship (Belarusian: Віцебскае ваяводзтва, Polish: Województwo witebskie, Latin: Palatinatus Vitebsciensis) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (from 1569 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) since 15th century till the partitions of Poland in 1795.

Voivodeship Governor (Wojewoda) seat:

  • Vitebsk

Voivodes: Samuel Sanguszko (1629- XI 1638), Paweł Jan Sapieha (15 VIII 1646-)

Administrative division:

Vitebsk Voivodeship consisted since the Andrussov peace 1667 of two lesser units-counties (powiaty):Witebsk and Orsza.The first was lost to Russia in 1772, and only a little part of the second belonged to the Commonwealth until 1793.

Historical voivodeships of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
  • Minsk (1413)
  • Trakai (1413)
  • Vilnius (1413)
  • Polotsk (1504)
  • Nowogródek (1507)
  • Smolensk (1508)
  • Vitebsk (1511)
  • Brest Litovsk (1566)
  • Mstsislaw (1566)
  • Eldership of Samogitia
Transferred to the Crown of the Polish Kingdom by the Union of Lublin (1569)
Kiev (1471)
Podlaskie (1513)
Bracław (1566)
Volhynian (1566)
Administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Province of
Greater Poland
  • Brześć Kujawski
  • Chełmno
  • Gniezno
  • Inowrocław
  • Kalisz
  • Łęczyca
  • Malbork
  • Masovian
  • Płock
  • Pomeranian
  • Poznań
  • Rawa
  • Sieradz
  • Prince-Bishopric of Warmia
Province of
Lesser Poland
  • Bełz
  • Bracław
  • Chernihiv
  • Kiev
  • Kraków
  • Lublin
  • Podlaskie
  • Podole
  • Ruthenian
  • Sandomierz
  • Volhynia
  • Duchy of Siewierz
Grand Duchy of
Lithuania
  • Brest Litovsk
  • Minsk
  • Mstsislaw
  • Nowogródek
  • Polotsk
  • Smolensk
  • Trakai
  • Vilnius
  • Vitebsk
  • Duchy of Samogitia
Polish Livonia
  • Duchy of Livonia (1561–1621): Dorpat, Parnawa, Wenden
  • Inflanty (1621–1772)
Fiefs
  • Lauenburg and Bütow Land
  • Duchy of Prussia
  • Duchy of Courland and Semigallia

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