Kiev Voivodeship

The Kiev Voivodeship[1] (Polish: Województwo kijowskie; Latin: Palatinatus Kioviensis; Ukrainian: Київське воєводство, romanized: Kyivske voievodstvo) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1471 until 1569 and of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1793, as part of Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown.

The voivodeship was established in 1471 under the order of King Casimir IV Jagiellon soon after the death of Semen Olelkovich.

It had replaced the former Principality of Kiev, ruled by Lithuanian-Ruthenian Olelkovich princes (related to House of Algirdas and Olshansky family).

[2][3] 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 (Polish: Żytomierz), where it remained until 1793.

[6] Instead of some liquidated counties in 1566 there were established elderships: Biała Cerkiew, Kaniów, Korsun, Romanówka, Czerkasy, Czigrin.

Basse Volhynia (Lower Volhynia) or Kiow Palatinate in 1665
Map from 1635 covering the western part of the Kiev Voivodeship.
Map from 1635 covering the western part of the Kiev Voivodeship.
Map of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and its territorial losses in the mid 17th century.
Kiev ( Kiow ) on a fragment of piece Tractus Borysthenis Vulgo Dniepr at Niepr dicti . Map by Jan Janssonius (Amsterdam, 1663).
Kiev ( Kiou ). A fragment of Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae map by Anthony Jenkinson (London 1562) published by Ortelius in 1570.