Wenden Voivodeship

Województwo wendeńskie
Wenden Voivodeship
Voivodeship of Livonia¹
1598–1621 →
 
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Coat of arms
Wenden Voivodeship in the Duchy of Livonia.
Capital Wenden
History
 - Established 1598
 - Polish–Swedish War 1621
Area 30,000 km2 (11,583 sq mi)
¹ The Duchy of Livonia was a vassal to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania until the Union of Lublin in 1569, and after that a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Wenden Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo wendeńskie)[1] was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Duchy of Livonia, part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, since it was formed in 1598 till the Swedish conquest of Livonia in the 1620s. The remainder of Polish Livonia was named the Inflanty Voivodeship afterwards till First Partition of Poland in 1772.

Voivodes of Wenden

The seat of the voivode was Wenden (Cēsis).

references

  1. ^ Niesiecki, Kasper (1846) (in Polish). Herbarz polski Kaspra Niesieckiego. Waif. p. 228. http://books.google.com/books?id=sGBJAAAAIAAJ&printsec. 
Province of
Greater Poland
Province of
Lesser Poland
Grand Duchy of
Lithuania
Polish Livonia
Fiefs