English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Ruthenian Voivodeship
The Ruthenian Voivodeship (, , ) was a voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1366 (or 1434) until the 1772 First Partition of Poland. Together with a number of other voivodeships of southern and eastern part of the Kingdom of Poland, it formed Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown, with its capital city in Kraków. Following the Partitions of Poland, most of Ruthenian Voivodeship, except for its northeastern corner, was annexed by the Habsburg Empire, as part of the province of Galicia. Today former Lwów Voivodeship is divided among Poland and Ukraine.

See more at Wikipedia.org...


© This article uses material from Wikipedia® and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License