Vitebsk Voivodeship (Belarusian: Віцебскае ваяводзтва, Polish: Województwo witebskie, Latin: Palatinatus Vitebsciensis) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (from 1569 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) since 15th century till the partitions of Poland in 1795.
Voivodeship Governor (Wojewoda) seat:
Voivodes: Samuel Sanguszko (1629- XI 1638), Paweł Jan Sapieha (15 VIII 1646-)
Administrative division:
Vitebsk Voivodeship consisted since the Andrussov peace 1667 of two lesser units-counties (powiaty):Witebsk and Orsza.The first was lost to Russia in 1772, and only a little part of the second belonged to the Commonwealth until 1793.
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Historical voivodeships of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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- Minsk (1413)
- Trakai (1413)
- Vilnius (1413)
- Polotsk (1504)
- Nowogródek (1507)
- Smolensk (1508)
- Vitebsk (1511)
- Brest Litovsk (1566)
- Mstsislaw (1566)
- Eldership of Samogitia
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- Transferred to the Crown of the Polish Kingdom by the Union of Lublin (1569)
- Kiev (1471)
- Podlaskie (1513)
- Bracław (1566)
- Volhynian (1566)
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Administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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Province of
Greater Poland |
- Brześć Kujawski
- Chełmno
- Gniezno
- Inowrocław
- Kalisz
- Łęczyca
- Malbork
- Masovian
- Płock
- Pomeranian
- Poznań
- Rawa
- Sieradz
- Prince-Bishopric of Warmia
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Province of
Lesser Poland |
- Bełz
- Bracław
- Chernihiv
- Kiev
- Kraków
- Lublin
- Podlaskie
- Podole
- Ruthenian
- Sandomierz
- Volhynia
- Duchy of Siewierz
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Grand Duchy of
Lithuania |
- Brest Litovsk
- Minsk
- Mstsislaw
- Nowogródek
- Polotsk
- Smolensk
- Trakai
- Vilnius
- Vitebsk
- Duchy of Samogitia
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| Polish Livonia |
- Duchy of Livonia (1561–1621): Dorpat, Parnawa, Wenden
- Inflanty (1621–1772)
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| Fiefs |
- Lauenburg and Bütow Land
- Duchy of Prussia
- Duchy of Courland and Semigallia
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