The Podlaskie Voivodeship was formed in 1513 by Sigismund I the Old as a voivodeship in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, from a split off part of the Trakai Voivodeship. After Lithuania's union with the
Branicki Palace and garden in Białystok in the 18th century
Jan Zbigniew Ossoliński, Voivode in 1605–1613
Stanisław Mateusz Rzewuski, Voivode in 1710–1728
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Białystok Department
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The Białystok Department was part of the New East Prussia Province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1795 to 1807. It was created out of territory annexed in the Third Partition of Poland and included pa
Podlaskie Voivodeship (1513–1795)
…Partition of Poland 24 October 1795 Political subdivisions 3 lands, which were equivalent to counties Preceded by Succeeded by Trakai Voivodeship Berestia Białystok Department West Galicia Today part of Poland Belarus¹ ¹ South-eastern part of the pre-1566 territory of the voivodeship. The Podlaskie Voivodeship was formed in…
New East Prussia (Neuostpreussen) and the Departments of Plozk and Bialystok, 1801–1807.