| Kiev Voivodeship | |||||||||||
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| Voivodeship ofPolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth¹ | |||||||||||
| 1471–1793 | |||||||||||
 The Kiev Voivodeship in thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1635. | |||||||||||
| Capital | (Kijów (Kyiv), 1471–1667), Żytomierz (Zhytomyr, 1667–1793) | ||||||||||
| Demonym | Kievan | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
• 1793 | 200,000 km2 (77,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• 1793 | 500,000 | ||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||
| Voivode | |||||||||||
• 1471–1475 | Martynas Goštautas (first) | ||||||||||
• 1559–1608 | Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (transition) | ||||||||||
• 1791–1793 | Antoni Protazy Potocki (last) | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• death ofSimeon Olelkovich | 1471 | ||||||||||
| 1503 | |||||||||||
| 1569 | |||||||||||
| 1648 | |||||||||||
| 1667 | |||||||||||
| 1793 | |||||||||||
| Political subdivisions | counties:
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| Today part of | Ukraine, partiallyBelarus | ||||||||||
| ¹ Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland. The kingdom was part of thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569. | |||||||||||
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TheKiev Voivodeship[1] (Polish:Województwo kijowskie;Latin:Palatinatus Kioviensis;Ukrainian:Київське воєводство,romanized: Kyivske voievodstvo) was a unit of administrative division and local government in theGrand Duchy of Lithuania from 1471 until 1569 and of theCrown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1793, as part ofLesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown. On some maps Kiev Voivodeship was also named as the Lower Volhynia.
Thevoivodeship was established in 1471 upon the death of the last prince of KievSimeon Olelkovich and transformation of the Duchy of Kiev (appanage duchy of theGrand Duchy of Lithuania) into the Voivodeship of Kiev.
The voivodeship was established in 1471 under the order of KingCasimir IV Jagiellon soon after the death ofSemen Olelkovich. It had replaced the formerPrincipality of Kiev, ruled by Lithuanian-RuthenianOlelkovich princes (related toHouse of Algirdas andOlshansky family).[2][3]
Its first administrative center wasKiev, but when the city was given toImperial Russia in 1667 byTreaty of Andrusovo, the capital moved toZhytomyr (Polish:Żytomierz), where it remained until 1793.
It was the biggest voivodeship of thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by land area, covering, among others, the land ofZaporizhian Cossacks.
The governor of the voivodeship wasvoivode (List of voivodes of Kiev).[4] In the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth the other two major administrative positions werecastellan[5] and bishop (biskup kijowski).
The flag on one side hadLithuanian Pogon on red field and on other side black bear on white field with his front left paw raised up.[6]
Instead of some liquidated counties in 1566 there were established elderships: Biała Cerkiew, Kaniów, Korsun, Romanówka, Czerkasy, Czigrin.
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