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Trakai Voivodeship - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 54°38′22″N 24°56′06″E / 54.639319°N 24.935049°E

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Trakai Voivodeship

Latin: Palatinatus Trocensis
Lithuanian: Trakų vaivadija
Polish: Województwo trockie

Voivodeship of
Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1413–1569)
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795)

1413–1795

Coat of arms

Trakai Voivodeship (in red) in the 17th century

Trakai Voivodeship in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Capital

Trakai

Area

• 1570

31,100 km² (12,000 sq mi)

• 1790

23,885 km² (9,222 sq mi)

Population

• 1790

288,000

• Type

Monarchy

Legislature

Sejmik

History

• Established by Union of Horodło

1413

• Union of Lublin

1569

• Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

1795

Political subdivisions

Counties: 4

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Duchy of Trakai

Vilna Governorate
Grodno Governorate
East Prussia
Podlaskie Voivodeship (1513–1795)

Today part of

Lithuania
Poland
Belarus

Population and area are given according to Vaitiekūnas, Stasys (2006). Lietuvos gyventojai: Per du tūkstantmečius (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas. pp. 53, 71. ISBN 5-420-01585-4.

Trakai Voivodeship,^[1] Trakai Palatinate, or Troki Voivodeship^[2] (Latin: Palatinatus Trocensis, Lithuanian: Trakų vaivadija, Polish: Województwo trockie), was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1413 until 1795.

History

Trakai Voivodeship together with Vilnius Voivodeship was established by the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great in 1413 according to the Union of Horodło.^[1] Vytautas copied the Polish system of administrative division in order to centralize and strengthen the government. Trakai Voivodeship replaced the former Duchy of Trakai, which was ruled directly by the Grand Duke or his close relative (brother or son). The Duke of Trakai (Latin: dux Trocensis) was replaced by appointed officials – voivodes and his deputy castellan.

The voivodeship was divided into four powets [be]: Grodno, Kaunas, Trakai (ruled directly by the voivode), and Upytė.^[1] The biggest cities in the voivodeship were Kaunas, Grodno and 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 the voivodeship, together with the whole Grand Duchy of Lithuania, became part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until the partitions of the Commonwealth in 1795. Most of the territory became part of the Russian Empire, while territories west of the Neman River – part of the Province of East Prussia.

Voivodes

The Voivode of Trakai (Polish: Wojewoda trocki, Lithuanian: Trakų vaivada) was one of the most important state offices in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. They were appointed from prominent magnate families and competed only with voivode of Vilnius and Grand Chancellors for power and prestige.^[3] Voivodes were the ex officio members of the Lithuanian Council of Lords. Voivodes had their residence in Trakai city, near Galvė Lake, north of the Trakai Peninsula Castle.

List of voivodes

Jonas Goštautas (1440)
Iwaszko Moniwidowicz (1443–1458)
Radvila Astikas (1466–1477)
Martynas Goštautas (1480–1483)
Jan Zabrzeziński (1498–1505)
Olbracht Gasztołd (Albrecht Goštautas) (1519–1522)
Konstanty Ostrogski (1522–1530)
Stanisław Gasztołd (Stanislovas Goštautas) (1542)
Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł (1590–1604)
Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz (1626–1640)
Piotr Pac (X 1640–VII 1642)
Mikołaj Abramowicz (1647–1651?)
Marcjan Ogiński (since 1670)
Tadeusz Franciszek Ogiński (1770–1783)
Józef Mikołaj Radziwiłł (since 1788)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Laužikas, Rimvydas (2004-10-15). "Trakų vaivadija". Aruodai (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian Institute of History. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
^ Leszczyński, Anatol (1980). Żydzi ziemi bielskiej od połowy XVII w. do 1795 r.: studium osadnicze. Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. p. 248. ISBN 83-04-00389-9.
^ Simas Sužiedėlis, ed. (1970–1978). "Trakai". Encyclopedia Lituanica. Vol. V. Boston, Massachusetts: Juozas Kapočius. p. 491. LCCN 74-114275.

v t e Historical voivodeships of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
	Minsk (1413) Trakai (1413) Vilnius (1413) Polotsk (1504) Nowogródek (1507) Smolensk (1508) Vitebsk (1511) Brest Litovsk (1566) Mstsislaw (1566) Eldership of Samogitia
Transferred to the Crown of the Polish Kingdom by the Union of Lublin (1569) Kiev (1471) Podlaskie (1513) Bracław (1566) Volhynian (1566)

v t e Administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Province of Greater Poland	Brześć Kujawski Chełmno Gniezno Inowrocław Kalisz Łęczyca Malbork Masovian Płock Pomeranian Poznań Rawa Sieradz Prince-Bishopric of Warmia
Province of Lesser Poland	Bełz Bracław Chernihów Kiev Kraków Lublin Podlaskie Podolian Ruthenian Sandomierz Volhynia Duchy of Siewierz Duchy of Siveria (1619–1635)
Grand Duchy of Lithuania	Brest Litovsk Minsk Mstsislaw Nowogródek Połock Smolensk Trakai Vilnius Vitebsk Duchy of Samogitia
Polish Livonia	Duchy of Livonia (1561–1621): Dorpat, Parnawa, Wenden Inflanty (1621–1772)
Fiefs	Lauenburg and Bütow Land Duchy of Prussia Duchy of Courland and Semigallia

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