Brest Litovsk Voivodeship

Brest Litovsk Voivodeship (Belarusian: Берасьцейскае ваяводзтва, Polish: Województwo brzesko-litewskie ,) was a unit of administrative territorial division and a seat of local government (voivode) within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) since 1566 until the May Constitution in 1791, and from 1791 to 1795 (partitions of Poland) as a voivodeship in Poland. It was constituted from Brest-Litowsk and Pinsk counties. It was created from southern part of Trakai Voivodeship in 1566. In 1791 Kobryn and Pinsk-Zarzeche (Its center was Poltnica, now Plotnitsa) counties were created. Pinsk-Zarzeche country was renamed as Zapynsky and its seat was moved to Stolin. After the Second Partition of Poland, in 1793, Pinsk and Zapynsky countries were left to Russian Empire as part of Minsk Governorate. Finally remainder of it was dissolved in 1795 and part of Slonim Governorate.

Voivodeship Governor (Wojewoda) seat:

• Brest-Litovsk

Voivodes:

• Jerzy Ilinicz (1566)
• Jerzy Tyszkiewicz Łohojski (1566-1576)
• Gabriel Hornostaj (1576-1587)
• Mikołaj Michał Sapieha (1587-1588)
• Jan Kiszka (1589—1592)
• Krzysztof Zenowicz (Zienowicz) (1592—1615)
• Jan Ostafi Tyszkiewicz Łohojski (1615-1631)
• Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł (1631–1635)
• Mikołaj Sapieha (XI 1638-VII 1642)
• Teofil Iwan Tryzna (1642—1644)
• Andrzej Massalski (1645-1651/1652)
• Jerzy Klonowski (1652—1653)
• Maksymilian Brzozowski (1653-1659)
• Kazimierz Ludwik Jewłaszewski (1659—1664)
• Jakub Teodor Kuncewicz (1664—1666/1667)
• Melchior Stanisław Sawicki (1666—1668)
• Krzysztof Piekarski (1668-1672)
• Stefan Kurcz (1672—1702)
• Krzysztof Komorowski (1702-1708)
• Władysław Jozafat Sapieha (1709-1733)
• Kazimierz Leon Sapieha (1735-1738)
• Adam Tadeusz Chodkiewicz (1738-1745)
• Jan Michał Sołłohub (1745-1748)
• Karol Józef Sapieha (1748-1768)
• Jan Antoni Horain (1768-1777)
• Mikołaj Tadeusz Łopaciński (1777—1778)
• Jan Tadeusz Zyberg (1783—1795)