Kiev Voivodeship

Kyiv Voivodeship Palatinatus Kioviensis Województwo kijowskie
Voivodeship of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth¹
1471–1793
Coat of arms
The Kiev Voivodeship in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1635.
Capital	Kijów (1471–1667), Żytomierz (1667–1793)
Area
• 1793	200,000 km2 (77,000 sq mi)
Population
• 1793	500,000
History
• death of Semen Olelkovich	1471
• Second partition	1793
Political subdivisions	counties: 9 (1471-1569) 7 (1569-1667) 3 (1667-1793)
Preceded by Succeeded by Principality of Kiev Cossack Hetmanate Kiev Viceroyalty
¹ Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland. The kingdom was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569.

Map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its territorial losses in the mid 17th century.

Kiev (Kiou). A fragment of Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae map by Anthony Jenkinson (London 1562) published by Ortelius in 1570.

Kiev (Kiow) A fragment of piece Tractus Borysthenis Vulgo Dniepr at Niepr dicti. map by Joannii Janssonii (Amsterdam, 1663).

The Kiev Voivodeship (Template:Lang-pl, Ukrainian: Київське воєводство, Kyivske voyevodstvo) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1471 until 1569 and of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1793, as part of Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown.

Description

The voivodeship was established in 1471 under the order of King Casimir IV Jagiellon soon after the death of Semen Olelkovich. It had replaced the former Principality of Kiev, ruled by Lithuanian-Ruthenian Olelkovich princes (related to House of Algirdas and Olshansky family).

Its first administrative center was Kiev, but when the city was given to Imperial Russia in 1667 by Treaty of Andrusovo, the capital moved to Zhytomyr (Template:Lang-pl), where it remained until 1793.

It was the biggest voivodeship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by land area, covering, among others, the land of Zaporizhian Cossacks.

Municipal government

The governor of the voivodeship was voivode (voivode of Kiev). In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the other two major administrative positions were castellan and bishop (biskup kijowski).

• Voivode of Kijow
• Castellan of Kijow (city governor)
• Vogt of Kijow (also see Mayor of Kiev)

Regional council (sejmik)

• Zhytomyr

Regional council for all Ruthenian lands

• Sudova Vyshnia

Regional council seats

• Kiev
• Ovruch
• Zhytomyr

Administrative division

Counties

• Kijow County, Kijow (Biała Cerkiew since 1659)
• Owrucz County, Owrucz
• Zytomierz County, Zytomierz

Other former counties

• Putywl County, Putywl (lost after the second Muscovite–Lithuanian War)
• Mozyrz County, Mozyrz (transferred to Minsk Voivodeship under the Union of Lublin)
• Czerkasy County, Czerkasy (liquidated in 1566)
• Czarnobyl County, Czarnobyl (liquidated in 1566)

Former counties lost under the Treaty of Andrusovo

• Lubecz County, Lubecz
• Oster County, Oster
• City of Kijow

Elderships (Starostwo)

Instead of some liquidated counties in 1566 there were established elderships: Biała Cerkiew, Kaniów, Korsun, Romanówka, Czerkasy, Czigrin.

Neighbouring Voivodeships and regions

• Bratslav Voivodeship
• Podolian Voivodeship
• Brest Litovsk Voivodeship
• Minsk Voivodeship
• Chernihiv Voivodeship
• Grand Duchy of Moscow
• Crimean Khanate
• Yedisan

See also

• List of voivodes of Kiev

References

• Kijow Voivodeship, description by Zygmunt Gloger

Further reading

• Central European Superpower, Henryk Litwin, BUM Magazine, October 2016.
• Template:Pl icon Spisy pod red. Antoniego Gąsiorowskiego, t. III: Ziemie Ruskie, z. 4: Urzędnicy województw kijowskiego i czernihowskiego XV-XVIII wieku, opracowali Eugeniusz Janas i Witold Kłaczewski, Kórnik: Biblioteka Kórnicka. 2002. 343, ISBN 83-85213-37-6.
• Template:Pl icon Witold Bobiński. Województwo kijowskie w czasach Zygmunta III Wazy: studium osadnictwa i stosunków własności ziemskiej. Warszawa. 2000.
• Template:Pl icon Henryk Litwin. Napływ szlachty polskiej na Ukrainę 1569–1648. Semper. 2000. ISBN 83-86951-67-2 [also:] The Spatial Structure of the Kiev Voivodeship and its Impact on the Political and Social Life of the Gentry in 1569–1648. Struktura przestrzenna województwa kijowskiego i jej wpływ na życie polityczne i społeczne szlachty w latach 1569–1648.
• Template:Pl icon Michał Kulecki. Wygnańcy ze Wschodu. Egzulanci w Rzeczypospolitej w ostatnich latach panowania Jana Kazimierza i za panowania Michała Korybuta Wiśniowieckiego. Warszawa 1997. ISBN 83-7181-001-6.
• Template:Pl icon Dzieje rezydencji na dawnych kresach Rzeczypospolitej. Województwo kijowskie . OSSOLINEUM. 1997. ISBN 83-04-04369-6
• Template:Pl icon Zygmunt Gloger. Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski. Kraków. 1903.
• Template:Pl icon Antoni Józef Rolle. Z przeszłości Polesia Kijowskiego. Warszawa. Red. Biblioteki Warszawskiej. 1882

External links

• Kyiv voivodeship in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
• Cossack era on Ukrainian Government portal
• The Zaphorozian Cossacks
• Template:Pl icon Województwo kijowskie [in:] Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other slavic lands
• Palatinatus Kioviensis Pars. Boristhenem alias Dzikie Pola. [1].by Joannis Janssonii. Amsterdam. 1663.
• Template:De icon Der königlichen Republik Polen Woiwodschaft Kiow das ist die obere Polnische Ukraine oder Klein Polens oestlicher Theil. Nor. 46 Vienna. Franz Johann Josef von Reilly 1791
• Template:Uk icon Kiev Voivodeship in the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine