Trakai Voivodeship
| Trakai Voivodeship Trakų vaivadija Województwo Trockie | |||||||||
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| Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania | |||||||||
| 1413–1795 | |||||||||
 Coat of arms
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 Trakai Voivodeship in the 17th century | |||||||||
| Capital | Trakai | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1570 | 31,100 km2 (12,000 sq mi) | ||||||||
• 1790 | 23,885 km2 (9,222 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1790 | 288,000 | ||||||||
| • Type | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Legislature | Sejmik | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established by Vytautas the Great | 1413 | ||||||||
| 1795 | |||||||||
| Political subdivisions | Powiat | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Lithuania, Poland, Belarus | ||||||||
Trakai Voivodeship (Lithuanian: Trakų vaivadija, Polish: Województwo Trockie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1413 until 1795.
History
Trakai Voivodeship was established by the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas in 1413, replacing the former Duchy of Trakai, which existed as early as under the rule of Vytenis. The Duke of Trakai (Template:Lang-la) was a significant title of Lithuanian rulers formally denoting the regency of the whole western Grand Duchy of Lithuania including ethnic Lithuanian lands. The title of the Duke of Trakai was inherited by Kęstutis from Gediminas, then passed to Jogaila was transferred by him to Skirgaila and finally to Vytautas following the Astrava Agreement.
After the Union of Lublin the voivodeship, together with whole Grand Duchy of Lithuania, became part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795. The biggest cities in the voivodeship had been Kaunas, Hrodna and Trakai.
Voivodes
The Voivode of Trakai (Template:Lang-lt) was one of the most important state offices in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The voivode had been the ex officio member of the Lithuanian Council of Lords. Voivodes had their residence in Trakai city, near Galvė Lake, north of the Trakai Peninsula Castle.
List of voivodes
- Jonas Goštautas (1440)
- Radvila Astikas (1466–1477)
- Martynas Goštautas (1480–1483)
- Albrecht Goštautas (1519–1522)
- Stanislovas Goštautas (1542)
- Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł (1590–1604)
- Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz (1626–1640)
- Piotr Pac (X 1640–VII 1642)
- Mikołaj Abramowicz (1647–1651?)
- Marcjan Ogiński (since 1670)
- Tadeusz Franciszek Ogiński (1770–1783)
- Józef Mikołaj Radziwiłł (since 1788)
Administrative division
The Voivodeship was divided into 4 powiats:
- Hrodna powiat
- Kaunas powiat
- Trakai powiat
- Upytė powiat (note: the capital of this powiat was not Upytė, but Panevėžys)
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