Chernihiv Voivodeship
Czernihów (Chernihiv) Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo czernihowskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland (part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) from 1635 until Khmelnytsky Uprising in 1648 (technically it existed up until 1654). Also it was used as a fictitious title in the Commonwealth until the Partitions of Poland in 1772/1795. In 1635, Marcin Kalinowski was the first voivode (governor) of the Chernihiv Voivodeship.
| Czernihów Voivodeship Województwo czernihowskie Palatinatus Czernihoviensis | |||||||||
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| Voivodeship of Poland | |||||||||
| 1635–1654 | |||||||||
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Chernihiv Voivodeship in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | |||||||||
| Capital | Czernihów | ||||||||
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• Established | 1635 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1654 | ||||||||
| Political subdivisions | counties: 2 | ||||||||
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The voivodeship was part of the Lesser Poland Province, and was divided into two counties: Czernihów and Nowogród Siewierski. Local sejmiks took place at Czernihów, and it had two senators in the Polish–Lithuanian Senate. Together with Kijów Voivodeship (Kyiv) and Bracław Voivodeship (Bratslav) it made the territory that came to be known as Ukraine.