Kiev Voivodeship

	Palatinatus Kioviensis; Kiev Voivodeship
	Voivodeship of Poland¹
	Coat of arms
	The Kiev Voivodeship in; the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1635.
Capital	Kiev (Till 1667), Żytomierz (1667–1793)
History
- Established	1471
- Disestablished	1795
	Area
- 1795	200,000 km² (77,220 sq mi)
	Population
- 1795	500,000
Density	2.5 /km² (6.5 /sq mi)
Political Subdivisions	Urban counties: 3; Land counties: 3; Gmina:
	¹ Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland. The kingdom was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569.

(Redirected from Kijów Voivodeship)

Lesser Poland (German: Kleinpolen, Polish: Małopolska) - province of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, before 1660. The term Ukraina on the map meaning Outskirts or Borderlands, was first used to define the Polish eastern frontier. The Borderlands referred to the eastern frontiers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Kiev (Kiou). A fragment of Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae map by Anthony Jenkinson (London 1562) published by Ortelius in 1570.

Kiev (Kiow) A fragment of piece Tractus Borysthenis Vulgo Dniepr at Niepr dicti. map by Joannii Janssonii (Amsterdam, 1663).

The Kiev Voivodeship (Ukrainian: Київське воєводство, Polish: Województwo kijowskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1471 until 1569 and of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1793/1795, part of Lesser Poland. It was the biggest voivodeship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, covering, among others, land of Dnieper Cossacks, known as Zaporizhia. Under the order of King Casimir Jagiellon, it had replaced the former Duchy of Kiev, ruled by Olelkovich dukes, heirs of Algirdas.^[1] Its first administrative center was Kiev, but when the city was given to Imperial Russia in 1667 by Treaty of Andrusovo, the capital moved to Zhytomyr (Żytomierz), where it remained until 1793. Today the entire region belongs to Ukraine.

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