Inflanty Voivodeship Explained

Conventional Long Name:Inflanty Voivodeship
Livonian Voivodeship
Native Name:Polish: Województwo inflanckie
Common Name:Inflanty
Subdivision:Voivodeship
Nation:the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Year Start:1621
Event Start:Polish–Swedish War
Event End:First partition
Year End:1772
Date End:5 August
Event1:Treaty of Oliva
Date Event1:23 April 1660
P1:Duchy of Livonia
Flag P1:POL Inflanty IRP COA.svg
Border P1:no
Symbol:Coat of arms of Vidzeme
S1:Vitebsk Governorate
Flag S1:Coat of arms of Vitebsk Governorate 1856.svg
Border S1:no
Image Map Caption:Inflanty in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1635.
Capital:Dyneburg
Stat Area1:12000

The Inflanty Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo inflanckie),[1] or Livonian Voivodeship, also known as Polish Livonia, was an administrative division and local government in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, since it was formed in the 1620s out of the Wenden Voivodeship and lasted until the First Partition of Poland in 1772. The Inflanty Voivodeship was one of the few territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to be ruled jointly by Poland and Lithuania.

Overview

The Inflanty Voivodeship, also called the Duchy of Inflanty, due to a 1667 bill of the Sejm, was the minority remainder of the Duchy of Livonia, which had been conquered by the Swedish Empire during the Polish–Swedish War of 1621–1625. The seat of the voivode was Dyneburg (Daugavpils).

The name Inflanty is derived through Polonization of Livland, the German name for Livonia. In modern times the region is known as Latgalia in the Republic of Latvia.[2]

Zygmunt Gloger in his monumental book Historical Geography of the Lands of Old Poland provides this description of Inflanty Voivodeship:

Voivodes

This is a list of the voivodes for Inflanty:

Bibliography

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Niesiecki, Kasper . pl . Herbarz polski Kaspra Niesieckiego . 1846 . Waif . 227 .
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=IpR0-OrrwssC&pg=PA14&vq=Inflanty+Latgale&source=gbs_search_r&cad=0_1&sig=ACfU3U2yqK0MEDqTL6uiXVeQYKTLPLnf-A Culture and Customs of the Baltic States By Kevin O'Connor; p. 14