Trakai Voivodeship
| Trakai Voivodeship | |||||||||||||||
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| Voivodeship of Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1413–1569) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795) | |||||||||||||||
| 1413–1795 | |||||||||||||||
 Coat of arms
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 Trakai Voivodeship (in red) in the 17th century | |||||||||||||||
 Trakai Voivodeship in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | |||||||||||||||
| Capital | Trakai | ||||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||||
• 1570 | 31,100 km2 (12,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
• 1790 | 23,885 km2 (9,222 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||||
• 1790 | 288,000 | ||||||||||||||
| • Type | Monarchy | ||||||||||||||
Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | 1795 | ||||||||||||||
| Political subdivisions | Counties: 4 | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | ISBN 5-420-01585-4 . | ||||||||||||||
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Trakai Voivodeship,Latin: Palatinatus Trocensis, Lithuanian: Trakų vaivadija, Polish: Województwo trockie), was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1413 until 1795.
History
Troki
, capital of the voivodeship, in the 17th centuryTrakai Voivodeship together with
.The voivodeship was divided into four powets: Grodno, Kaunas, Trakai (ruled directly by the voivode), and Upytė.[1] The biggest cities in the voivodeship were Kaunas, Grodno and Trakai.
The western portion of the voivodeship was split off in 1513 by
Polish Crown. It was organized as the Podlaskie Voivodeship. In 1793, the counties of Grodno, Sokółka and Wołkowysk one of Nowogródek Voivodeship
were merged into Grodno Voivodeship.
After the
Province of East Prussia
.
Voivodes
The Voivode of Trakai (
Galvė Lake, north of the Trakai Peninsula Castle
.
List of voivodes
- Jonas Goštautas (1440)
- Iwaszko Moniwidowicz (1443–1458)
- Radvila Astikas (1466–1477)
- Martynas Goštautas (1480–1483)
- Jan Zabrzeziński (1498–1505)
- Olbracht Gasztołd (Albrecht Goštautas)(1519–1522)
- Konstanty Ostrogski (1522–1530)
- Stanisław Gasztołd (Stanislovas Goštautas) (1542)
- Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł (1590–1604)
- Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz (1626–1640)
- Piotr Pac (X 1640–VII 1642)
- Mikołaj Abramowicz (1647–1651?)
- Marcjan Ogiński(since 1670)
- Tadeusz Franciszek Ogiński (1770–1783)
- Józef Mikołaj Radziwiłł (since 1788)
References
- ^ a b c Laužikas, Rimvydas (2004-10-15). "Trakų vaivadija". Aruodai (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian Institute of History. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
- ISBN 83-04-00389-9.
- LCCN 74-114275.
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