Volhynian Viceroyalty

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Volhynian Vice-royalty
Волынская наместничество
Vice-royalty of Russian Empire
1792–1796
Coat of arms of Volyn
Coat of arms
CapitalNovograd-Volynsky
Zhitomir (officially since 1804)
History 
1792
• transformed into a governorate
1 August 1796
Political subdivisionsGovernorates of Russian Empire
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Wołyń Voivodeship (1569–1795)
Izyaslav Vice-royalty
Volhynian Governorate

Volhynian Vice-royalty (Russian: Волынское наместничество) was an administrative-territorial division of the Russian Empire, created at the end of 1795 after the third Partition of Poland from the territory of the Izyaslav Viceroyalty and Wołyń Voivodeship.

Three partitions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

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