Płock Land was a

land Land, also known as dry land, ground, or earth, is the solid terrestrial surface of Earth not submerged by the ocean or another body of water. It makes up 29.2% of Earth's surface and includes all continents and islands. Earth's land sur ...

(

administrative division Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divi ...

) of the

Kingdom of Poland The Kingdom of Poland (; Latin: ''Regnum Poloniae'') was a monarchy in Central Europe during the Middle Ages, medieval period from 1025 until 1385. Background The West Slavs, West Slavic tribe of Polans (western), Polans who lived in what i ...

until 1495, and later, part of the

Płock Voivodeship Płock (pronounced ), officially the Ducal Capital City of Płock, is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, in the Masovian Voivodeship. According to the data provided by Central Statistical Office (Poland), GUS on 31 December 2021, the ...

Crown of the Kingdom of Poland The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (; ) was a political and legal concept formed in the 14th century in the Kingdom of Poland, assuming unity, indivisibility and continuity of the state. Under this idea, the state was no longer seen as the Pat ...

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic (), was a federation, federative real union between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ...

, from 1495 to 25 September 1793. The seat of its government was located in

Płock Płock (pronounced ), officially the Ducal Capital City of Płock, is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, in the Masovian Voivodeship. According to the data provided by Central Statistical Office (Poland), GUS on 31 December 2021, the ...

Subdivisions

The land was divided into five

counties A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...

.''Mazowsze w drugiej połowie XVI wieku''; Cz. 2, Komentarz, indeksy'', Warsaw, 1973, p. 59.Marian Chudzyński: ''Dawne województwo płockie jako jednostka podziału administracyjnego'', In: ''Notatki Płockie 20'', 1975, p. 3. They were: * Płock County (seat:

); * Bielsk County (seat: Bielsk); * Raciąż County (seat:

Raciąż Raciąż is a town in Płońsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,642 inhabitants (2010). Its history dates to 10th century. History Raciąż was granted town rights in 1425 by Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia. It was located on a trade ...

); *

Płońsk County Płońsk County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship in east-central Poland. It came into being on 1 January 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its ad ...

(seat:

Płońsk Płońsk (; ) is a town in central Poland with 21,591 inhabitants (2022). Situated at the Płonka river in the historic region of Mazovia, it is the seat of Płońsk County in the Masovian Voivodeship. History According to archaeological researc ...

); *

Sierpc County __NOTOC__ Sierpc County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. I ...

(seat:

Sierpc Sierpc ( Polish: ) is a town in north-central Poland, in the north-west part of the Masovian Voivodeship, about northwest of Warsaw. It is the capital of Sierpc County. Its population is 18,368 (2010). Sierpc is a member of Cittaslow. History ...

was formed in the 1530s, from the portion of the Bielsk County.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Plock Land History of Mazovia Płock States and territories disestablished in 1793 1793 disestablishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Ziemias