Masovian Voivodeship (1526–1795)

Masovian Voivodeship Palatinatus Masoviensis Województwo Mazowieckie
Voivodeship of Poland¹
1526–1795
Coat of arms
The Masovian Voivodeship in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1635.
Capital	Warsaw
Area
•	23,200 km2 (9,000 sq mi)
History
• Established	1526
• Third partition	October 24 1795
Political subdivisions	Ten lands divided into 22 counties
Preceded by Succeeded by Duchy of Masovia New East Prussia New Galicia South Prussia
¹ Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland. The kingdom was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569.

Masovian Voivodeship (

Zygmunt Gloger in his monumental book Historical Geography of the Lands of Old Poland gives a detailed description of Masovian Voivodeship:

"In the general division of the Commonwealth into three provinces:

In the 16th century, whole Mazovia had the area of 578 sq. miles, and all three Mazovian voivodeships were divided into 33 counties, with 446 Roman-Catholic parishes, 94 towns and 5990 villages. At the same time, Greater Poland proper had the area of 1051 sq. miles, with 6471 villages, while Lesser Poland proper, with the area of 1013 sq. miles, had 5500 villages. As we see, Mazovia, much smaller than Greater and Lesser Poland, had the same number of villages. Per square mile, there were 6 villages in Greater Poland, 5 villages in Lesser Poland, and as many as 10 villages in Mazovia. In Ciechanów County, there were 23 villages per sq. mile, which was the highest number in the whole kingdom (...)

The population of Mazovia would be even higher, if it had not been for the proximity of

• Warsaw

Administrative division

• Ciechanów Land (ziemia ciechanowska, Ciechanów)
• Czersk Land (ziemia czerska, Czersk)
• Liw Land (ziemia liwska, Liw)
• Łomża Land (ziemia łomżyńska, Łomża)
• Nur Land (ziemia nurska, Nur)
• Różan Land (ziemia różańska, Różan)
• Warszawa Land
  (ziemia warszawska, Warsaw)
• Wizna Land (ziemia wiska, Wizna)
• Wyszogród Land (ziemia wyszogrodzka, Wyszogród)
• Zakroczym Land (ziemia zakroczymska, Zakroczym)

Voivodes

• Feliks Brzeski (1517–1545)
• Stanisław Warszycki (1630–1651)
• Stanisław Poniatowski (from 1731)
• Andrzej Mokronowski (from 1781)

Sources

• Masovian Voivodeship, description by Zygmunt Gloger

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