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Brest Litovsk Voivodeship
Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Treaty of Brest-Litovsk or Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Ukraine–Central Powers).
Brest Litovsk Voivodeship (Belarusian: Берасьцейскае ваяводзтва; Polish: Województwo brzeskolitewskie) was a unit of administrative territorial division and a seat of local government (voivode) within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) since 1566 until the May Constitution in 1791, and from 1791 to 1795 (partitions of Poland) as a voivodeship in Poland. It was constituted from Brest-Litovsk and Pinsk counties.
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Brest-Litovsk Voivodeship Brest-Litovsk Voivodeship Województwo brzesko-litewskie | |||||||||
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Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, later Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | |||||||||
1566–1795 | |||||||||
![]() Brest-Litovsk Voivodeship in red. Voivodeship's borders did not change since the Union of Lublin. | |||||||||
![]() Brześć Litewski Voivodeship in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | |||||||||
Capital | Brest-Litovsk | ||||||||
Area | |||||||||
• | 40,600 km2 (15,700 sq mi) | ||||||||
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• Established | 1566 | ||||||||
1795 | |||||||||
Political subdivisions | counties: two | ||||||||
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Today part of | Belarus Poland Ukraine |
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