Trakai Voivodeship
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Trakai Voivodeship, Trakai Palatinate, or Troki Voivodeship, was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1413 until 1795.
Trakai, capital of the voivodeship, in the 17th century
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
Trakai Voivodeship
…Trakai. The western portion of the voivodeship was split off in 1513 by Sigismund I the Old and transferred to the Polish Crown. It was organized as the Podlaskie Voivodeship. In 1793, the counties of Grodno, Sokółka and Wołkowysk one of Nowogródek Voivodeship were merged into Grodno Voivodeship. After the Union of Lublin…
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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