Brest Litovsk Voivodeship (; ) was a unit of administrative territorial division and a seat of local government (voivode) in the

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) from 1566 until the May Constitution in 1791, and from 1791 to 1795 (

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) as a voivodeship in Poland. It was constituted from Brest-Litovsk and Pinsk counties.

History

It was created from the southern part of

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in 1566. In 1791 Kobryn and Pinsk-Zarzeche (whose center was Poltnica, now Plotnitsa) counties were created. Pinsk-Zarzeche country was renamed Zapynsky and its seat was moved to

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. After the

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, in 1793, Pinsk and Zapynsky countries became part of the

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. The remainder of it was dissolved in 1795 and became part of Slonim Governorate.

Governors

Voivodeship Governor (

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) seat: *

Brest-Litovsk Brest, formerly Brest-Litovsk and Brest-on-the-Bug, is a city in south-western Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the Polish town of Terespol, where the Bug and Mukhavets rivers meet, making it a border town. It serves as the admini ...

Voivodes: * Jerzy Ilinicz (1566) * Jerzy Tyszkiewicz Łohojski (1566-1576) * Gabriel Hornostaj (1576-1587) * Mikołaj Michał Sapieha (1587-1588) * Jan Kiszka (1589—1592) * Krzysztof Zenowicz (Zienowicz) (1592—1615) * Jan Ostafi Tyszkiewicz Łohojski (1615-1631) *

Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł Prince Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł (; 4 August 1594 – 30 March 1654) was a Polish–Lithuanian nobleman. He was the Ordynat of Nieśwież, Stolnik (Master of the Pantry) of Lithuania since 1626, Krajczy (Carver) of Lithuania since 1630 ...

(1631–1635) * Mikołaj Sapieha (XI 1638-VII 1642) * Teofil Iwan Tryzna (1642—1644) * Andrzej Massalski (1645-1651/1652) * Jerzy Klonowski (1652—1653) * Maksymilian Brzozowski (1653-1659) * Kazimierz Ludwik Jewłaszewski (1659—1664) * Jakub Teodor Kuncewicz (1664—1666/1667) * Melchior Stanisław Sawicki (1666—1668) * Krzysztof Piekarski (1668-1672) * Stefan Kurcz (1672—1702) * Krzysztof Komorowski (1702-1708) * Władysław Jozafat Sapieha (1709-1733) * Kazimierz Leon Sapieha (1735-1738) * Adam Tadeusz Chodkiewicz (1738-1745) * Jan Michał Sołłohub (1745-1748) * Karol Józef Sapieha (1748-1768) * Jan Antoni Horain (1768-1777) * Mikołaj Tadeusz Łopaciński (1777—1778) * Jan Tadeusz Zyberg (1783—1795)

References

* Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, vol. I, pages 399-401
Brest Litovsk Voivodeship, description by Zygmunt Gloger
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Voivodeship A voivodeship ( ) or voivodate is the area administered by a voivode (governor) in several countries of central and eastern Europe. Voivodeships have existed since medieval times and the area of extent of voivodeship resembles that of a duchy in ...

1566 establishments in Lithuania 1795 disestablishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Early modern history of Belarus