Płock Voivodeship (Polish: ''Województwo Płockie'') was a unit of administrative division and local government in the

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from 1495 until the

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in 1795. Together with the Rawa Voivodeship and

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it formed the former of

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in his monumental book Historical Geography of the Lands of Old Poland gives a detailed description of Płock Voivodeship: "After childless death of Janusz II, Duke of

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Wizna Wizna is a village in Łomża County of Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, situated on the Narew River. Wizna is known for the battle of Wizna which took place in its vicinity during the 1939 Invasion of Poland at the start of Worl ...

and Płock, which took place on February 16, 1495, the Duchy of Płock, except for the Land of

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, was incorporated into the

, and turned into a

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(...) In the 16th century, it had the area of 701 square miles, divided into eight small counties: those of Płock, Bielsk, Raciaz, Sierpc,

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, Szrensk, Niedzborz, and

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. The three last counties, located between the

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n border, made the so-called Zawkrze Land (...) The voivodeship had 67 Roman-Catholic parishes, 63 towns and 1,115 villages. Most densely populated was Bielsk County (...) Local

sejmik A sejmik (, diminutive of ''sejm'', occasionally translated as a ''dietine''; lt, seimelis) was one of various local parliaments in the history of Poland and history of Lithuania. The first sejmiks were regional assemblies in the Kingdom of ...

s for the voivodeship took place at Raciaz, the town located in the middle of the province. During the reign of King

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, the sejmiks were moved to Płock. The voivodeship had five senators: the Bishop of Płock, the Voivode of Płock, the

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of Płock, and Castellans of Raciaz and Sierpc. Land courts were located in Płock, Bielsk and Sierpc (since 1726, also in Mława)".

Municipal government

Voivodeship Governor (

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) seat: *

Płock Płock (pronounced ) is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, in the Masovian Voivodeship. According to the data provided by GUS on 31 December 2021, there were 116,962 inhabitants in the city. Its full ceremonial name, according to th ...

Regional council (

) seats: * Raciaz, later Płock

Administrative division

County, * Bielsk County, *

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County, * Sierpc County, *

County, Zawkrze Land, divided into the following counties * Szreńsk County, * Niedzbórz County, *

County.

Voivodes

* Krzywosąd (1299)Kazimierz Pacuski
Możnowładztwo i rycerstwo ziemi gostynińskiej w XIV i XV wieku
Warszawa 2009, p. 30. * Ziemak (1303) * Stanisław Krasiński (since 1600) * Jan Stanisław Karnkowski (1617–1647) * Jan Kazimierz Krasiński (since 1650) *

Jan Dobrogost Krasiński Jan Dobrogost Bonawentura Krasiński ('' en, John Krasinski'', 10 June 1639 – 21 February 1717) was a Polish nobleman ( szlachcic). Biography He was the son of Jan Kazimierz Krasiński and Ursula Grzybowska. In his youth he studied in the Neth ...

(since 1688)

References

Sources

Płock Voivodeship, description by Zygmunt Gloger
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