Bełz Voivodeship

Belz Voivodeship Bełz Voivodeship Województwo bełskie
Voivodeship of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth1
← 1462–1793 →
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Bełz Voivodeship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Capital		Belz
History
•	Established	1462
•	Second partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	1793
Area		9,000 km2(3,475 sq mi)
Political subdivisions		counties: 4 plus 1 land
¹ Voivodeship of the Polish Crown in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland before 1569.

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Bełz Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo bełskie, Latin: Palatinatus Belzensis) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1462 to the Partitions of Poland in 1772–1795. Together with the Ruthenian Voivodeship it was part of Red Ruthenia, Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown. The voivodeship was created by King Kazimierz Jagiellonczyk, and had four senators in the Senate of the Commonwealth (the Voivode and the Castellan of Belz, as well as Castellans of Lubaczow and Busk).

Bełz Voivodeship was formed in 1462 from the territories of the Duchy of Belz, after the Duchy was annexed by the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. Zygmunt Gloger in his monumental book Historical Geography of the Lands of Old Poland gives a detailed description of the voivodeship:

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