The Kiev Voivodeship ( pl, województwo kijowskie, la, Palatinatus Kioviensis, uk, Київське воєводство, ''Kyjivśke vojevodstvo'') 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. The voivodeship was established in 1471 upon the death of the last prince of Kiev Simeon Olelkovich and transformation of the Duchy of Kiev (appanage duchy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania) into the Voivodeship of Kiev.

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 Grand Prince of Kiev, Principality of Kiev, ruled by Lithuanian-Ruthenian Olelkovich princes (related to House of Algirdas and Olshanski, 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 ( pl, Żytomierz), 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 (List of voivodes of Kiev). In the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth the other two major administrative positions were Castellans of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, castellan and bishop (biskup kijowski). * List of voivodes of Kiev * Castellan of Kijow (city governor) * Vogt of Kijow

Flag and coat of arms

The flag on one side had Lithuanian Pogon on red field and on other side black bear on white field with his front left paw raised up.

Regional council (''sejmik'')

* Zhytomyr

Regional council for all Ruthenian lands

* Sudova Vyshnia

Regional council pl, sejmik poselski i deputacki seats

* Kive * Ovruch * Zhytomyr

Administrative division

Counties

* Kijow County, Kijow (Biała Cerkiew, Bila Tserkva, since 1659) * Owrucz County, Owrucz * Żytomierz County, Żytomierz

Other former counties

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

Former counties lost under the Treaty of Andrusovo

* Lubecz County, Liubech, 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.

Royal city in Poland, Free royal cities

*Berezań *Biała Cerkiew *Bohusław *Czehryń *Cherkasy, Czerkasy *Yahotyn, Jagodzin *Kaniv, Kaniów *Kyiv, Kijów *Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, Korsuń *Myrhorod *Oster *Owrucz *Stebliw *Trechtymirów *Żytomierz

Neighbouring Voivodeships and regions

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

References

Kijow Voivodeship, description by Zygmunt Gloger

''Central European Superpower''
Henryk Litwin, ''BUM Magazine'', October 2016. * 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, . * Witold Bobiński. Województwo kijowskie w czasach Zygmunta III Wazy: studium osadnictwa i stosunków własności ziemskiej. Warszawa. 2000. * Henryk Litwin. Napływ szlachty polskiej na Ukrainę 1569–1648. Semper. 2000. [also:] The Spatial Structure of the Kyiv 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. * Michał Kulecki. Wygnańcy ze Wschodu. Egzulanci w Rzeczypospolitej w ostatnich latach panowania Jana Kazimierza i za panowania Michała Korybuta Wiśniowieckiego. Warszawa 1997. . * Dzieje rezydencji na dawnych kresach Rzeczypospolitej. Województwo kijowskie . OSSOLINEUM. 1997. * Zygmunt Gloger. Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski. Kraków. 1903. * 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 portalThe Zaphorozian Cossacks
* Województwo kijowskie [in:
Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other slavic lands
* Palatinatus Kioviensis Pars. Boristhenem ''alias'' Wild Fields, Dzikie Pola

by Joannis Janssonii. Amsterdam. 1663.
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
Kyiv Voivodeship
in the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine {{coord, 50.450000, 30.523333, format=dms, display=title, type:landmark Kiev Voivodeship, Voivodeships of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Early Modern history of Ukraine Former voivodeships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania Geographic history of Ukraine 1471 establishments in Europe 15th-century establishments in Lithuania 1793 disestablishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth History of Kyiv History of Kyiv Oblast