Sieradz Voivodeship (1339–1793)
| Sieradz Voivodeship Palatinatus Siradiensis Województwo sieradzkie |
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| Voivodeship of Poland¹ | |||||
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 the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1635. |
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| Capital | Sieradz | ||||
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| • | Established | 1339 | |||
| • | Second partition | 25 September 1793 | |||
| Area | 9,700 km2(3,745 sq mi) | ||||
| Political subdivisions | counties: four, plus two counties of Wieluń Land | ||||
| ¹ Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland. The kingdom was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569. | |||||
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Sieradz Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in the and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, from 1339 to the second partition of Poland in 1793. It was a part of the Province of Greater Poland.
Its total area was 9,700 km2, divided into four counties. The seat of the voivode was in Sieradz, while local sejmiks took place in Szadek.
The history of Sieradz Voivodeship dates back to the year 1138, when following the Testament of Bolesław III Krzywousty, Poland was divided into several smaller duchies. One of them was the Duchy of Sieradz, which until the 1260s was part of the Duchy of Łęczyca. In 1290–1300, and after 1306, Sieradz was ruled by Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek, who incorporated it back into the Kingdom of Poland. In 1339, Wladyslaw Lokietek created Sieradz Voivodeship out of the former Duchy. In the west, it bordered Kalisz Voivodeship and the Duchies of Silesia; in the north, along the Ner river, it bordered Łęczyca Voivodeship; in the east it bordered Sandomierz Voivodeship along the Pilica river from Koniecpol to Białobrzegi; and in the south it bordered Kraków Voivodeship, partly along the Liswarta river.
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