| Wenden Voivodeship Województwo wendeńskie Vendeno vaivadija | |||||||||
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| Voivodeship ofLivonia1 | |||||||||
| 1598–1621 | |||||||||
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 Wenden Voivodeship in theDuchy of Livonia. | |||||||||
| Capital | Wenden | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• | 30,000 km2 (12,000 sq mi) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1598 | ||||||||
| 1621 | |||||||||
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| 1 TheDuchy of Livonia was a vassal to theGrand Duchy of Lithuania until theUnion of Lublin in 1569, and after that a part of thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. | |||||||||
Wenden Voivodeship (Polish:Województwo wendeńskie,[1]Lithuanian:Vendeno vaivadija[2]) was a unit of administrative division and local government in theDuchy of Livonia, part of thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was formed in 1598 by KingSigismund III Vasa, out of Wenden Presidency (Province), which had been created in 1582 by KingStephen Báthory, after theTruce of Yam-Zapolsky. The voivodeship remained in the Commonwealth until theSwedish Empire's conquest ofLivonia in the 1620s. The unconquered remainder of Livonia was namedInflanty Voivodeship, and continued to be part of the Commonwealth untilits first partition in 1772.
Officially, Wenden Voivodeship belonged to Poland–Lithuania until theTreaty of Oliva in 1660. Its capital wasWenden, where localsejmiks of the nobility (seeszlachta) took place. Wenden Voivodeship elected two deputies to theSejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Even though it no longer belonged to the Commonwealth after the Swedish conquest, itsvoivodes continued to be named by Polish kings until the final partition of Poland (1795), as the so-called "fictitious titles" (Polish:urzędy fikcyjne).
Major cities, towns and castles of Wenden Voivodeship were:Cēsis (Kies, Wenden),Riga,Koknese (Kokenhausen),Salaspils (Kircholm),Daugavpils (Dyneburg),Rēzekne (Rzezyca, Rositten),Viļaka (Marienhausen),Gulbene (Schwanenburg),Ludza (Lucyn),Krustpils (Kreutzburg).
The seat of thevoivode was Wenden (Cēsis). The voivodes were as follow:[3]
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