Brest Litovsk Voivodeship
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| Brest-Litovsk Voivodeship Brest-Litovsk Voivodeship Województwo brzesko-litewskie | |||||||||
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| Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, later Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | |||||||||
| 1566–1795 | |||||||||
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Third partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | 1795 | ||||||||
| Political subdivisions | counties: two | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Belarus Poland Ukraine | ||||||||
Brest Litovsk Voivodeship (
May Constitution in 1791, and from 1791 to 1795 (partitions of Poland
) as a voivodeship in Poland. It was constituted from Brest-Litovsk and Pinsk counties.
Overview
It was created from southern part of
Slonim Governorate
.
Zygmunt Gloger in his monumental book Historical Geography of the Lands of Old Poland provides this description of the Brest Litovsk Voivodeship:
“After the death of
Polesie, together with Pińsk. During his reign, the three regions of Polesie - those of Brześć, Pińsk and Turów were united. After the Union of Lublin
, due to its immense area, Polesie was separated from Troki Voivodeship. Brzesc Voivodeship was created, in a shape which remained unchanged until the 1793 Second Partition of Poland. Central and eastern parts of the voivodeship were made of former Principality of Turov and Pinsk (...)
Brzesc Voivodeship was divided into two enormous counties - those of Brzesc and Pinsk. Each county had its own
Kamieniec Litewski. In northeastern corner of Brześć Voivodeship was Białowieża Forest
, where Polish kings hunted”.
Governors
Brześć Litewski
, capital of the voivodeship, in the 17th centuryVoivodeship Governor (
Wojewoda
) seat:
- Brest-Litovsk
Voivodes:
- Jerzy Ilinicz (1566)
- Jerzy Tyszkiewicz Łohojski (1566-1576)
- Gabriel Hornostaj (1576-1587)
- Mikołaj Michał Sapieha (1587-1588)
- Jan Kiszka (1589—1592)
- Krzysztof Zenowicz (Zienowicz) (1592—1615)
- Jan Ostafi Tyszkiewicz Łohojski (1615-1631)
- Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł (1631–1635)
- Mikołaj Sapieha(XI 1638-VII 1642)
- Teofil Iwan Tryzna (1642—1644)
- Andrzej Massalski (1645-1651/1652)
- Jerzy Klonowski (1652—1653)
- Maksymilian Brzozowski (1653-1659)
- Kazimierz Ludwik Jewłaszewski (1659—1664)
- Jakub Teodor Kuncewicz (1664—1666/1667)
- Melchior Stanisław Sawicki (1666—1668)
- Krzysztof Piekarski (1668-1672)
- Stefan Kurcz (1672—1702)
- Krzysztof Komorowski (1702-1708)
- Władysław Jozafat Sapieha (1709-1733)
- Kazimierz Leon Sapieha (1735-1738)
- Adam Tadeusz Chodkiewicz (1738-1745)
- Jan Michał Sołłohub (1745-1748)
- Karol Józef Sapieha (1748-1768)
- Jan Antoni Horain (1768-1777)
- Mikołaj Tadeusz Łopaciński (1777—1778)
- Jan Tadeusz Zyberg (1783—1795)
References
- Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, vol. I, pages 399-401
- Brest Litovsk Voivodeship, description by Zygmunt Gloger
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