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| Ruthenian Voivodeship | |||||||||
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| Voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland¹ | |||||||||
| 1434–1772 | |||||||||
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 The Ruthenian Voivodeship of 1635 within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | |||||||||
| Capital | Lwów | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1770 | 55,200 km2 (21,300 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1770 | 1,495,000 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1434 | ||||||||
| 1772 | |||||||||
| Political subdivisions | Five lands divided into 13 counties | ||||||||
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| ¹ Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland. The kingdom was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569. | |||||||||
The Ruthenian Voivodeship (Latin: Palatinatus russiae; Polish: Województwo ruskie; Ukrainian: Руське воєводство, romanized: Ruske voievodstvo) was a voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1434 until the First Partition of Poland in 1772,[1] with its center in the city of Lwów (modern day Lviv). Together with a number of other voivodeships of southern and eastern part of the Kingdom of Poland, it formed Lesser Poland Province. Following the Partitions of Poland, most of Ruthenian Voivodeship, except for its northeastern corner, was annexed by the Habsburg monarchy, as part of the province of Galicia. Today, the former Ruthenian Voivodeship is divided between Poland and Ukraine.
- ^ Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski. Archived May 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine by Zygmunt Gloger 1903. [in] Biblioteka Literatury Polskiej. Uniwersytet Gdański. Instytut Filologii Polskiej. 2003