Rawa Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in the

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since 15th century until the

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in 1795. It was part of the Province of

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. Together with the Plock and

Masovian Voivodeship The Masovian Voivodeship, also known as the Mazovia Province ( pl, województwo mazowieckie ) is a voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, with its capital located in the city of Warsaw, which also serves as the capital of the country. The ...

s it formed the former

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. The voivodeship had its capital in the town of

Rawa Mazowiecka Rawa Mazowiecka is a town in central Poland, with 17,193 inhabitants (2020). It lies in the Łódź Voivodeship and is the capital of the Rawa County. From 1562 the city hosted the ''Rawa Treasury'' for the Polish army. During an excavation in 1 ...

, and its origins date back to the second half of the 15th century. In 1462, after the deaths of local

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dukes, Mazovian lands of Rawa and

Gostynin Gostynin is a town in central Poland with 19,414 inhabitants (2004). It is situated in the Masovian Voivodship since 1999 and was previously in the Płock Voivodship from 1975 to 1998. It is the capital of Gostynin County. History Gostynin h ...

were incorporated into the

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. In 1476, the Land of

Sochaczew Sochaczew () is a town in central Poland, with 38,300 inhabitants (2004). In the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), formerly in Skierniewice Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is the capital of Sochaczew County. Sochaczew has a narrow-gauge railway ...

returned to Poland as well. Borders of Rawa Voivodeship remained unchanged for more than 300 years, until the

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in 1793, when it was annexed by the

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. Rawa Voivodeship had four senators in the

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of the

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. These were the

Voivode Voivode (, also spelled ''voievod'', ''voevod'', ''voivoda'', ''vojvoda'' or ''wojewoda'') is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe since the Early Middle Ages. It primarily referred to the me ...

of Rawa, the

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of Rawa, and the castellans of Sochaczew and Gostynin. Local

starosta The starosta or starost (Cyrillic: ''старост/а'', Latin: ''capitaneus'', german: link=no, Starost, Hauptmann) is a term of Slavic origin denoting a community elder whose role was to administer the assets of a clan or family estates. Th ...

s resided in Rawa, Sochaczew and Gostynin.

Zygmunt Gloger Zygmunt Gloger (3 November 1845 in Tybory-Kamianka – 16 August 1910 in Warsaw) was a Polish historian, archaeologist, geographer and ethnographer, bearer of the Wilczekosy coat of arms. Gloger founded the precursor of modern and widely popu ...

in his monumental book Historical Geography of the Lands of Old Poland provides this description of Rawa Voivodeship: “In the 15th century, the

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, ruled by local branch of the

, was divided into three parts, one of which was the Duchy of Rawa (...) On January 1, 1462, Siemowit VI died at the age of eighteen. A few weeks later, his teenage brother Wladyslaw II also died. Siemowit VI was the Duke of Plock and Rawa, and after his death, King

Kazimierz Jagiellonczyk Casimir IV (in full Casimir IV Andrew Jagiellon; pl, Kazimierz IV Andrzej Jagiellończyk ; Lithuanian: ; 30 November 1427 – 7 June 1492) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447, until his death. He was one of the ...

decided to incorporate the Duchy of Rawa, making it the first part of Mazovia that returned to Poland (...) Rawa Voivodeship had the area of 92 sq. miles. It was divided into three lands: those of Rawa, Sochaczew and Gostynin. Each land was divided into two counties. The lands were of roughly the same size, and in the mid-16th century, whole voivodeship had 100 Roman Catholic parishes and 15 towns (...)

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s took place at Rawa, Sochaczew and

Gąbin Gąbin is a small town in Płock County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,065 inhabitants as of December 2021. The Warsaw radio mast, which stood near Gąbin, was the tallest structure in the world until its collapse in 1991. History Gąb ...

, during which two deputies to the

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, and two deputies to the Greater Poland Tribunal were elected (...) Rawa Voivodeship shared its coat of arms with Plock Voivodeship”.

Municipal government

Voivodeship Governor (

Wojewoda Voivode (, also spelled ''voievod'', ''voevod'', ''voivoda'', ''vojvoda'' or ''wojewoda'') is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe since the Early Middle Ages. It primarily referred to the me ...

) seat: *

Administrative division

* Rawa Land (ziemia rawska, Rawa), ** Rawa County **

Biała Rawska Biała Rawska is a town in Rawa County, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland, with 3,081 inhabitants as of December 2021. History Biala Rawska is one of the oldest settlements of historic Mazovia. In the 12th century, it probably was an administrative c ...

County, * Gostynin Land (ziemia gostynińska,

), ** Gostynin County **

County, * Sochaczew Land (ziema sochaczewska,

), ** Sochaczew County **

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County.

Voivodes

* Mikołaj z Kutna 1465-1467 * Jan Grot z Nowego Miasta 1468-1489 * Andrzej Szczubioł 1489-1493 *

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1493-1496 * Andrzej Kucieński 1496-1504 * Piotr Prędota z Trzciany 1504-1518 * Jakub Gostomski 1518-1519 * Andrzej Kucieński 1519-1529 * Stanisław Kucieński 1529-1542 * Andrzej Sierpski 1542-? * Anzelm Gostomski 1572-1588 * Stanisław Gostomski 1588-? * Wojciech Wilkanowski ? *

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1597-1601 * Zygmunt Grudziński 1601-1618 *

Stanisław Radziejowski Stanisław Radziejowski (1575–1637) was a Polish nobleman, Voivode of Rawa, Voivode of Łęczyca, starost of Sochaczew, castellan of Rawa Mazowiecka. Married firstly Katarzyna Sobieska, father of Hieronim Radziejowski, later married to Krys ...

1618-1627 * Filip Wołucki 1627-1642 * Krzysztof Marcin Sułowski 1642-1644 * Andrzej Grudziński 1644-1650 * Łukasz Opaliński 1653-1654 * Aleksander Koryciński 1659-? *

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1676 * Hieronim Olszowski 1676 * Aleksander Załuski 1676-1692 * Aleksander Józef Załuski 1693-1720 * Andrzej Głębocki 1720-1735 * Stanisław Wincenty Jabłonowski 1735-1754 Janina Dobrzyniecka, Stanisław Wincenty Jabłonowski, w:

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, 1962-1964, t. X, s. 239. * Stanisław Świdziński 1754-1757 * Kazimierz Granowski 1757-1774 * Bazyli Walicki 1774-1789

References

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Rawa Voivodeship, description by Zygmunt Gloger
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