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Poznań Voivodeship (14th century to 1793)

Poznań Voivodeship
Palatinatus Posnaniensis
Województwo poznańskie
Voivodeship of Poland¹
Duchy of Greater Poland
1320–1793

Coat of arms of Poznań

Coat of arms

Location of Poznań
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.

Coat of arms of Poznań

Coat of arms

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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