Greater Poland Province, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland

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Greater Poland Province
Polish: Prowincja wielkopolska
Province of Poland

Location of the province within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
CapitalPoznań
Political subdivisions13 voivodeships and one duchy
Today part ofPoland
Russia¹
¹Small portion of the Vistula Spit around Polski[1]

Greater Poland Province (Polish: Prowincja Wielkopolska) was an administrative division of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1795. The name of the province comes from the historic land of Greater Poland.

The Greater Poland Province consisted initially of twelve voivodeships (after 1768 thirteen voivodeships)[2] and one duchy:

  1. Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship
  2. Chełmno Voivodeship
  3. Gniezno Voivodeship, est. in 1768
  4. Inowrocław Voivodeship
  5. Kalisz Voivodeship
  6. Łęczyca Voivodeship
  7. Malbork Voivodeship
  8. Masovian Voivodeship
  9. Płock Voivodeship
  10. Pomeranian Voivodeship
  11. Poznań Voivodeship
  12. Rawa Voivodeship
  13. Sieradz Voivodeship
  14. Prince-Bishopric of Warmia

The location of the Crown Tribunal for the Greater Poland Province (the highest appeal court of the province) was Piotrków Trybunalski, and after the Convocation Sejm (1764) also Poznań and Bydgoszcz.

Cities

Poznań, the capital of the province, in the 17th century
See also: Royal city in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth § Greater Poland Province

The five most influential cities, i.e. Warsaw, Poznań, Gdańsk, Toruń and Elbląg, enjoyed voting rights during the Royal elections.[3]

References

  1. ^ Biskup, Marian; Tomczak, Andrzej (1955). Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w. (in Polish). Toruń. p. 129.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Lucjan Tatomir, Geografia ogólna i statystyka ziem dawnej Polski, Drukarnia "Czasu" W. Kirchmayera, Kraków, 1868, p. 147 (in Polish)
  3. ^ Polska encyklopedja szlachecka, Tom I (in Polish). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Kultury Historycznej. 1935. p. 42.

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