Chernihiv Voivodeship

Czernihów Voivodeship
Województwo czernihowskie
Palatinatus Czernihoviensis
Voivodeship of Poland
1635–1654
coat of arms of Czernihów Voivodeship
coat of arms

Chernihiv Voivodeship in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
CapitalCzernihów
History 
• Established
1635
• Disestablished
1654
Political subdivisionscounties: 2
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Cossack Hetmanate

Czernihów (Chernihiv) Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo czernihowskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland (part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) from 1635 until Khmelnytsky Uprising in 1648 (technically it existed up until 1654). Also it was used as a fictitious title in the Commonwealth until the Partitions of Poland in 1772/1795. In 1635, Marcin Kalinowski was the first voivode (governor) of the Chernihiv Voivodeship.

The voivodeship was part of the Lesser Poland Province, and was divided into two counties: Czernihów and Nowogród Siewierski. Local sejmiks took place at Czernihów, and it had two senators in the Polish–Lithuanian Senate. Together with Kijów Voivodeship (Kyiv) and Bracław Voivodeship (Bratslav) it made the territory that came to be known as Ukraine.


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