The Dorpat Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo dorpackie or ''województwo derpskie'') was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Duchy of Livonia, part of the

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, from 1598 until the

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conquest of Livonia in the 1620s. The seat of the

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was in the town of Dorpat (

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), while the regional assembly ( sejmik) for the whole province of Livonia was located in Wenden. The area of the Dorpat Voivodeship was app. 9,000 square kilometers, and it had two senators in the

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of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The voivodeship was created by King Zygmunt III Waza in 1598, out of the Dorpat Presidency, which had existed since the

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(1582). It was divided into five

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: *district (starostwo) of Dorpat (''Tartu'') *district (starostwo) of Oberpahlen (''Põltsamaa'') *district (starostwo) of

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(''Laiuse'') *district (starostwo) of Kirrumpah (''Kirumpää'') *district (starostwo) of Neuhausen (''Vastseliina'') It effectively ceased to exist in 1621, when northern Livonia was conquered by the Swedish Empire, and turned into

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(see also Polish–Swedish War (1600–1629)). Officially, the Dorpat Voivodeship was liquidated in 1660, following the Treaty of Oliva. Nevertheless, the title of

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of Dorpat was kept until the

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, as the so-called "fictitious title" ( pl, urzad fikcyjny).

Castellans of Dorpat

*1599–1609 Maciej Leniek *1612–1625 Bertrand Olszer

Titular castellans

*1627–1631 Aleksander Massalski *1638–1643 Piotr Rudomina-Dusiacki *1644–1646 Henryk Denhoff

Voivodes

The voivodes of Dorpat Voivodeship. *1598–1600 Jan Abramowicz, *1598 Gerard Denhoff (Gerhard Dönhoff; c. 1550–1598) ( pl) *1600–1602 Marcin Kurcz (died 1602) ( pl) *1609–1617 Teodor Dadźbog Karnkowski (1573–1617) *1617–1627

Mikołaj Kiszka Mikołaj is the Polish cognate of given name Nicholas, used both as a given name and a surname. It may refer to people: In Polish (or Polish-Lithuanian) nobility: * Mikołaj Firlej (died 1526), Polish nobleman, Hetman, diplomat, and expert of so ...

(c. 1588–1644)

Titular voivodes

*26 August 1625 ''Tartu capitulated to Sweden'' *1627–1634 Kasper Doenhoff (Caspar Dönhoff; c. 1588–1645) *1634–1640 Gothard Jan Tyzenhauz (died 1640) *1641–1651 Andrzej Leszczyński (c. 1606–1651) *1651–1651 Enoch Kolenda *1651–1654

Teodor Denhoff Teodor is a masculine given name. In English, it is a cognate of Theodore. Notable people with the name include: *Teodor Muzaka III, Albanian nobleman who was born in 1393. * Teodor Andrault de Langeron (19th century), President of Warsaw * Teodor ...

(died 1654) ( pl) *1654–1654 Zygmunt Opacki (died 1654) *1654–1658 Olbracht Opacki (c. 1621–1680)' *?–1657

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*1657–1658

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*1658–1660

Przecław Paweł Leszczyński Przecław is a small town in Mielec County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Przecław. It lies in Lesser Poland, approximately south of Mielec and north-we ...

(1605–1670) *1670–1676 Samuel Leszczyński (1637–1676)

References

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