Povit
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Number | 99 (as of 1923) |
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A povit, or county (Ukrainian: повіт, romanized: povit), was a type of historical territorial-administrative and judicial unit in Ukraine, administered by a starosta.[1] Following annexation of Ukraine (historically the Cossack Hetmanate) by the Russian Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries as well as through the partitions of Poland, the Russian administration introduced the system of uezds which locally (in Ukrainian language) were still referred in old manner as povits.[2] After Ukraine regained its independence in 1918, povits remained until the introduction of raions in 1923.
Description
Counties were introduced in Ukrainian territories under Poland (the Commonwealth Rzeczpospolita to be more precise) in the second half of the 14th century (Polish: powiat). More detailed norms were adopted in the Second Statutes of Lithuania of 1566.
They were introduced in the eighteenth century in the
In 1913, there were 126 counties in Ukrainian-inhabited territories of the Russian Empire.
List of povits per each governorate
Volhynian Governorate
- Starokostiantyniv povit
- Iziaslav povit
- Novohrad-Volynskyi povit
- Polonne povit (created out of portions of Novohrad-Volynskyi povit)
- Zhytomyr povit
- Korosten povit (created out of portions of Ovruch povit)
- Ovruch povit
Kyiv Governorate
- Berdychiv povit
- Lypovets povit
- Uman povit
- Radomyshl povit
- Chornobyl povit (created out of portions of Radomyshl povit)
- Skvyra povit
- Zvenyhorodka povit
- Kyiv povit
- Bila Tserkva povit (renamed)
- Pereiaslav povit (transferred from Poltava Governorate)
- Bohuslav povit (renamed)
- Tarashcha povit