Poznań Voivodeship (14th century–1793)

Poznań Voivodeship Palatinatus Posnaniensis Województwo poznańskie
Voivodeship of Poland¹
← 1320–1793 →
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Poznań Voivodeship in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1635.
Capital		Poznań
History
•	Established	1320
•	Split off Netze District	1772
•	Annexed by Prussia	25 September 1793
Area		15,015 km2(5,797 sq mi)
Political subdivisions		Counties: 3, plus Wschowa Land
¹ Voivodeship of the Polish Crown in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Voivodeship of Kingdom of Poland before 1569.

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Poznań Voivodeship 14th century to 1793 (Latin: Palatinatus Posnaniensis, Polish: Województwo Poznańskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from the 14th century to the Second Partition of Poland in 1793. It was part of the Greater Polish prowincja.

The voivodeship comprised the western part of the former Duchy of Greater Poland with its historic capital Poznań. As the westernmost part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth it bordered on the Neumark region of the Imperial Margraviate of Brandenburg in the west, the Bohemian crown land of Silesia in the south and the Duchy of Pomerania in the north. The adjacent Greater Polish area in the east belonged to the Kalisz Voivodeship.

The Northern outpost of Drahim was pawned to Brandenburg-Prussia according to the 1657 Treaty of Bromberg. In the course of the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the voivodeship lost the northern area around Wałcz to the Prussian Netze District, the remains were annexed in 1793 and incorporated into the province of South Prussia.

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