Łęczyca Voivodeship
| Łęczyca Voivodeship Łęczyca Voivodeship Województwo łęczyckie |
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| Voivodeship of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth1 | |||||
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| Capital | Łęczyca | ||||
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| • | Established | 1339 or 1352 (sources vary) | |||
| • | Second partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | 1793 | |||
| Area | 4,080 km2(1,575 sq mi) | ||||
| Political subdivisions | Counties: 3 | ||||
| ¹ Voivodeship of the Polish Crown in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland before 1569. |
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Łęczyca Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo łęczyckie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from the 14th century until the partitions of Poland in 1772–1795. It was part of Province of Greater Poland, and its capital was in Łęczyca. The voivodeship had the area of 4,080 square kilometers, divided into three counties. Local sejmiks took place at Łęczyca. The city of Łódź, which until the 19th century was a small town, for centuries belonged to Łęczyca Voivodeship.
The voivodeship was created by King Wladyslaw Lokietek, out of the territory of Duchy of Łęczyca, which had been established after the 1138 Testament of Bolesław III Krzywousty. It had five senators in the Senate of the Kingdom of Poland (since 1569 the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth). These were: Voivode of Łęczyca, Castellan of Łęczyca, Castellan of Brzeziny, Castellan of Inowlodz, and Castellan of Konary. At the sejmiks, local nobility elected four deputies to the Sejm of Poland, and two deputies to the Greater Poland Tribunal at Piotrków Trybunalski.
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