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A Voivodship, also spelled Voivodeship, Voivodina or Vojvodina (Romanian: voievodat, Polish: województwo, Serbian: vojvodina (војводина), vojvodstvo (војводство) or vojvodovina (војводовина), Hungarian: vajdaság, Lithuanian: vaivadija), is a geographical unit of administration dating to medieval Romania, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia and Serbia (see Vojvodina), ruled by a Voivod (voivode). The Voivod (literal translation: "the one who leads the warriors") was initially the military commander next to the ruler. It is sometimes translated as duchy, province, palatinate, or administrative district.
The term voivodship is used in the native languages for the 16 voivodeships of Poland, and for the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia, and has found its way into English in some of the larger dictionaries such as the OED, though it is not in common usage .
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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:01:08 -0400
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Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:00:03 -0400
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nothing to fear over base
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:46:40 -0400
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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:41:07 -0400
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Poland Seeks To Sooth Fears About Base
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:23:34 -0400
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Berlin concedes German guns fired shots that killed three Afghans
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:58:03 -0400
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I certainly do not drive in formula one in order to be popular - Kubica
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:09:45 -0000
Aug.29 Robert Kubica has ruled out returning to live permanently in his native Poland.
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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:09:38 -0000
Robert Kubica has ruled out returning to live permanently in his native Poland. The highly rated BMW-Sauber driver's burgeoning success in formula one has utterly transformed the popularity of the sport in the ...
Polish PM to visit future missile defense site
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:09:31 -0000
The Polish prime minister is to visit the future site of a U.S. missile defense base on Friday and meet with local residents in an attempt to ease their concerns about Russian threats to target the ...
US uses Georgia to militarise E. Europe
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:09:24 -0000
THE agreement signed recently by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski to establish a missile defence shield on Polish soil marks a major turning point in ...
Disappointment as Poland flights axed
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:09:18 -0000
A BUDGET airline which launched flights between the North-East and Poland last year is to ground the service because fewer migrant workers are travelling to Britain.
EU summit sparks row between Polish president and PM
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:08:52 -0000
Kaczynski along with the presidents of Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania and Estonia and Latvia's prime minister visited Georgia shortly after the August 8 start of Russia's five-day assault on Georgia, expressing ...
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Office of Geodesy and Cartography - Document describing administrative divisions of Poland as at 2005. Includes a list of counties, and their seats, arranged by Voivodships.
The Old Jewish Quarter of Kazimierz in Krakow - A tour of the major monuments in the once vibrant Jewish Quarter of Krakow, Kazimierz. Also includes details about Kazimierz and the occurances in Schindler's List, as well as pictures of locations where the movie was filmed.
Wikipedia - Article describing Polish voivodships, and their changes over time.
| Tourist advert of the Silesian Voivodship (also "Silesia Province", Wojewodztwo Slaskie) located in Southern Poland ... | |
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