Volhynian Vice-royalty Волынская наместничество |
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Vice-royalty of Russian Empire | |||||
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Capital |
Novograd-Volynsky Zhitomir (officially since 1804) |
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History | |||||
• | 2nd partition of Poland | 1792 | |||
• | transformed into a governorate | 1 August 1796 | |||
Political subdivisions | Governorates of Russian Empire |
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Volhynian Vice-royalty (Russian: Волынское наместничество) was an administrative-territorial division of the Russian Empire, created at the end of 1792 after the Second Partition of Poland from the territory of the Kijow Voivodeship and Wołyń Voivodeship.