Administrative Division of Congress Poland - 1816

1816

On January 16, 1816 the administrative division was reformed from the departments of the Duchy of Warsaw into the more traditionally Polish voivodeships, obwóds and powiats.

There were 8 voivodeships:

• Augustów Voivodeship (capital in Suwałki)
• Kalisz Voivodeship
• Kraków Voivodeship (despite the name of this province, the city of Kraków was not included; Kraków was a free city until the Kraków Uprising of 1846; the capital was first Miechów, then Kielce).
• Lublin Voivodeship
• Mazowsze Voivodeship (capital in Warsaw)
• Płock Voivodeship
• Podlasie Voivodeship (capital in Siedlce)
• Sandomierz Voivodeship (capital in Radom)