Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.

Responsive image


Kiev Voivodeship

Kiev Voivodeship
Palatinatus Kioviensis (Latin)
Województwo kijowskie (Polish)
Київське воєводство (Ukrainian)
Voivodeship of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth¹
1471–1793

The Kiev Voivodeship in
the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1635.
Capital(Kijów (Kyiv), 1471–1667), Żytomierz (Zhytomyr, 1667–1793)
DemonymKievan
Area 
• 1793
200,000 km2 (77,000 sq mi)
Population 
• 1793
500,000
Government
Voivode 
• 1471–1475
Martynas Goštautas (first)
• 1559–1608
Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (transition)
• 1791–1793
Antoni Protazy Potocki (last)
History 
• death of Simeon Olelkovich
1471
1503
1569
1648
1667
1793
Political subdivisionscounties:
  • 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.
Basse Volhynia (Lower Volhynia) or Kiow Palatinate in 1665
Map from 1635 covering the western part of the Kiev Voivodeship.
Map from 1635 covering the western part of the Kiev Voivodeship.
Map of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and its territorial losses in the mid 17th century.
Kiev (Kiow) on a fragment of piece Tractus Borysthenis Vulgo Dniepr at Niepr dicti. Map by Jan Janssonius (Amsterdam, 1663).

The Kiev Voivodeship[1] (Polish: Województwo kijowskie; Latin: Palatinatus Kioviensis; Ukrainian: Київське воєводство, romanizedKyivske voievodstvo) 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. On some maps Kiev Voivodeship was also named as the Lower Volhynia.

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.


Previous Page Next Page