The Inflanty Voivodeship (), or Livonian Voivodeship (), also known as Polish Livonia, was an administrative division and local government in the

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, since it was formed in the 1620s out of the

Wenden Voivodeship Wenden Voivodeship (, ) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Duchy of Livonia, part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was formed in 1598 by King Sigismund III Vasa, out of Wenden Presidency (Province), whi ...

and lasted until the First Partition of the Commonwealth in 1772. The Inflanty Voivodeship was one of the few territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to be ruled jointly by

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and

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The Inflanty Voivodeship, also called the ''Duchy of Inflanty'', due to a 1667 bill of the

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, was the minority remainder of the

Duchy of Livonia The Duchy of Livonia, also referred to as Polish Livonia or Livonia, was a territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that existed from 1561 to 1621. It corresponds to the present-day areas of northe ...

, which had been conquered by the

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during the Polish–Swedish War of 1621–1625. The seat of the

voivode Voivode ( ), also spelled voivod, voievod or voevod and also known as vaivode ( ), voivoda, vojvoda, vaivada or wojewoda, is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe in use since the Early Mid ...

was Dyneburg (

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). The name ''Inflanty'' is derived through

Polonization Polonization or Polonisation ()In Polish historiography, particularly pre-WWII (e.g., L. Wasilewski. As noted in Смалянчук А. Ф. (Smalyanchuk 2001) Паміж краёвасцю і нацыянальнай ідэяй. Польскі ...

of ''Livland'', the German name for

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. In modern times the region is known as Latgalia in the Republic of

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.Culture and Customs of the Baltic States By Kevin O'Connor; p. 14

Zygmunt Gloger Zygmunt Gloger (3November 184516August 1910) was a Polish historian, archaeologist, geographer and ethnographer, bearer of the Wilczekosy coat of arms. Gloger founded the precursor of modern and widely popular Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Socie ...

in his monumental book ''Historical Geography of the Lands of Old Poland'' provides this description of Inflanty Voivodeship:

Voivodes

This is a list of the voivodes for Inflanty: * 1677–1695 Jan Teodor Schlieben * 1695–1696 Jan Andrzej Plater * 1696–1705 Otto Fryderyk Felkierzamb (von Voelkersamb) * 1705–1707 Fabian Plater * 1707–1712 Stefan Karol Grothus * 1709–1713 Józef Kos * 1713–1722 Piotr Jerzy Przebendowski * 1722–1735 Antoni Andrzej Morsztyn * 1735–1736 Jan Ludwik Plater * 1737–1765 Franciszek Jakub Szembek * 1765–1767 Jan Andrzej Borch * 1767–1769 Stanisław Brzostowski * 1769–1775 Jozafat Zyberk (Sieberg zu Wischiing) * 1775–1778 Jan Tadeusz Zyberg (Sieberg zu Wischiing) * 1778–1788 Kasper Rogaliński * 1790–1794 Adam Ewald Felkerzamb (von Voelkersamb)

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* {{coord, 55.873170, 26.517017, format=dms, display=title, type:landmark Inflanty Voivodeship Organisations based in Livonia 1621 establishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1772 disestablishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Voivodeships of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth