Rawa Voivodeship

Rawa Voivodeship Palatinatus Ravensis Województwo rawskie
Voivodeship of Poland¹
← 1462–1793 →
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The Rawa Voivodeship in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1635.
Capital		Rawa Mazowiecka
History
•	Established	1462
•	Second partition	25 September 1793
Area
•	1578	6,200 km2(2,394 sq mi)
Population
•	1578	138,700
	Density	22.4 /km2  (57.9 /sq mi)
Political subdivisions		Three lands divided into 6 counties
¹ Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland. The kingdom was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569.

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Rawa Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo Rawskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland since 15th century until the partitions of Poland in 1795. It was part of the Province of Greater Poland. Together with the Plock and Masovian Voivodeships it formed the former Duchy of Masovia.

The voivodeship had its capital in the town of Rawa Mazowiecka, and its origins date back to the second half of the 15th century. In 1462, after the deaths of local Piasty dynasty dukes, Mazovian lands of Rawa and Gostynin were incorporated into the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1476, the Land of Sochaczew returned to Poland as well. Borders of Rawa Voivodeship remained unchanged for more than 300 years, until the second partition of Poland in 1793, when it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia. Rawa Voivodeship had four senators in the Senate of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. These were the Voivode of Rawa, the Castellan of Rawa, and the castellans of Sochaczew and Gostynin. Local starostas resided in Rawa, Sochaczew and Gostynin.

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