Dorpat Voivodeship
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The Dorpat Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo dorpackie or województwo derpskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Duchy of Livonia, part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from 1598 till the Swedish conquest of Livonia in the 1620s.
The seat of the voivode was Dorpat (Tartu). Voivodes of Dorpat included Kasper Doenhoff (1627-1634), Gothard Jan Tyzenhauz (1634-1640), Andrzej Leszczyński (1606-1651).