Lublin Voivodeship (1474–1795)
| Lublin Voivodeship Województwo Lubelskie Palatinatus Lublinensis | |||||||||
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| Voivodeship of Poland | |||||||||
| 1474–1795 | |||||||||
 Lublin Voivodeship in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1635 | |||||||||
| Capital | Lublin | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• | 10,230 km2 (3,950 sq mi) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1474 | ||||||||
| October 24 1795 | |||||||||
| Political subdivisions | counties: 3 | ||||||||
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Lublin Voivodeship (
History
The entire area of the voivodeship was located east of the
.Zygmunt Gloger in his book Historical Geography of the Lands of Old Poland gives a detailed description of Lublin Voivodeship together with the Land of Łuków:
"The fact that the area between the
Bolesław Chrobry, is confirmed by chronicles from the times of the Piast dynasty. Jan Długosz writes that the Land of Lublin was densely inhabited by farmers and other settlers, but its population was decimated in 1244, during a raid carried out by the Lithuanians, the Old Prussians, and the Yotvingians, after which it turned into a desert (...)First castellans of Lublin were mentioned in 1230. They resided in a defensive castle, and this land was part of the Duchy of Sandomierz (...) King Casimir IV Jagiellon, aware of the fact that Sandomierz Voivodeship was too large, separated parts of it located behind the Vistula and the San, creating Lublin Voivodeship. This was confirmed by the Sejm in Piotrków Trybunalski in 1474. First voivode of Lublin was Dobieslaw Kmita of Wiśnicz (...)
Total area of the voivodeship was 200 sq. miles, out of which Lublin County took 105 sq. miles, Urzedow County approximately 60 sq. miles, and the Land of Łuków – 35 sq. miles. In the 16th century, it had 34 towns, 663 villages and 82 Roman Catholic parishes (...) The voivodeship had two senators, which were the Voivode and the Castellan of Lublin. The sejmiks took place in Lublin, where six deputies were elected to the
Kakolewnica, Zbuczynand others (...)Of the three parts of Lesser Poland proper, Lublin Voivodeship was conveniently located by three navigable rivers – the Vistula, the San, and the Wieprz. It also had fertile soil, and a number of historical monuments".
Seat and administrative division
Voivodeship Governor (
- Lublin
Administrative division:
- Lublin County (Powiat Lubelski), Lublin
- Urzędów County (Powiat Urzędowski), Urzędów
- Łuków County (Powiat Łukowski, also called the Land of Łuków), Łuków
Main
- Jan Feliks "Szram" Tarnowski (before 1494)
- Piotr Firlej, 1537–1545
- Jan Tarło (1527–1587) (from 1574)
- Marek Sobieski (from 1597)
- Aleksander Piotr Tarło (1631–1649)
- Marcin Zamoyski (from 1682)
- Jan Tarło (1684–1750) (from 1719)
- Tomasz Antoni Zamoyski (from 1744)
- Antoni Lubomirski (from 1778)
Neighboring voivodeships:
- Masovian Voivodeship
- Brest Litovsk Voivodeship
- Chełm Voivodeship
- Bełz Voivodeship
- Ruthenian Voivodeship
- Sandomierz Voivodeship
References
Sources
- Lublin Voivodeship with Łuków Land by Zygmunt Gloger
- Central European Superpower, Henryk Litwin, BUM Magazine, October 2016.
