Minsk Voivodeship

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Minsk Minsk Voivodeship Województwo mińskie
Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, later Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
1566–1793
Coat of arms
Minsk Voivodeship in red. Voivodeship's borders did not change since the Union of Lublin.
Capital	Minsk
Area
•	55,500 km2 (21,400 sq mi)
History
• Established	1566
• Second partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	1793
Political subdivisions	counties: three
Preceded by Succeeded by Principality of Minsk Russian Empire

Minsk Voivodeship (Belarusian: Менскае ваяводзтва, romanized: Menskaje vajavodztva; Polish: Województwo mińskie; Lithuanian: Minsko vaivadija; Latin: Palatinatus Minscensis) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1566^[1] and later in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, until the partitions of the Commonwealth in 1793. Centred on the city of Minsk and subordinate to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the region continued the traditions – and shared the borders – of several previously existing units of administrative division, notably a separate Duchy of Minsk, annexed by Lithuania in the 13th century. It was replaced with Minsk Governorate in 1793.