Vitebsk Voivodeship
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Vitebsk Voivodeship (Belarusian: Віцебскае ваяводзтва, Polish: Województwo Witebskie, Latin: Palatinatus Vitebsciensis) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (from 1569 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) since 15th century till the partitions of Poland in 1795.
Voivodeship Governor (Wojewoda) seat:
Voivodes: Samuel Sanguszko (1629- XI 1638), Paweł Jan Sapieha (15 VIII 1646-)
Administrative division:
Vitebsk Voivodeship consisted since the Andrussov peace 1667 of two lesser units-counties (powiaty):Witebsk and Orsza.The first was lost to Russia in 1772, and only a little part of the second belonged to the Commonwealth until 1793.
