Volhynia Voivodeship (1569–1795)
Volhynian Voivodeship or Wołyń Voivodeship may refer to: *Volhynian Voivodeship (1569–1795) * *Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939) Wołyń Voivodeship or Wołyń Province was an administrative region of Interwar period, interwar Second Polish Republic, Poland (1918–1939) with an area of 35,754 km², 22 cities, and provincial capital in Lutsk, Łuck. The Voivodeships ...

Volhynian Voivodeship (1569–1795)
Volhynian Voivodeship (, , , ''Volynske voievodstvo'') was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1566 until 1569 and of the Polish Crown within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from the 1569 Union of Lublin until the Third Partition of Poland in 1795. It was part of the Ruthenian lands in the Lesser Poland Province. Description The voivodeship was established based on the Łuck Eldership (starostvo) in 1566 with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Following the 1569 union of Lublin, it was ceded to the Crown of Poland as part of the Lesser Poland (Malopolska) Province. The capital of the voivodeship was in Łuck (presentday Lutsk), and it had three senators in the Senate of the Commonwealth. These were the Bishop of Luck, the Voivode of Volhynia and the Castellan of Volhynia. Volhynian Voivodeship was divided into three counties: Luck, Wlodzimierz and Krzemieniec. Local starostas resided in the three capitals of the count ...
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