Chernihiv Voivodeship

Chernihiv Voivodeship ( Polish Województwo czernihowskie ) is an administrative unit of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , which existed in the Crown of Poland (now the territory of Ukraine ) from 1635 to the uprising of the Ukrainian Cossacks led by Bohdan Khmelnitsky in 1648 until the year 1648 (technical ) The center of the province was the city of Chernihiv .

Chernihiv Voivodeship
Województwo czernihowskie
Emblem
A country	Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Included in	Kingdom of Poland
Includes	Chernihiv Povet , Novgorod-Seversky Povet
Adm. Centre	Chernihiv
Governor	( list )
The number of senators	2
History and Geography
Date of formation	1635
Date of Abolition
Official language	Polish

It was created on the basis of the Chernihiv and Seversky lands , which became part of Poland in 1618 after the Russo-Polish war under the Deulinsky agreement . It was part of the Lesser Poland province of the Rus region. Headed by the Chernihiv governors. The Sejm of the Voivodeship was going to Chernihiv. The small representation in the Senate of the Commonwealth consisted of 2 senators. It was divided into 2 districts (counties) - Chernihiv and Novgorod . After the Zbor agreement, it became part of the Hetman .

In 1633, King Vladislav IV endowed the Chernigov Voivodeship with a statute, while the coat of arms was approved - a black double-headed eagle with a monogram of the king on its chest. In the 18th century, in practice, a different coat of arms was used on Polish maps - a silver double-headed eagle under a crown on a golden shield and without a monogram ^[1] .

1667 was finally liquidated under the conditions of the Andrusovsky world . The territory of the voivodship became part of the Chernihiv regiment of the Zaporizhzhya Army, depended on the Russian kingdom . The name of the voivodship continued to be used in the titular divisions of the nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (voivode of Chernihiv, the Chernigov Chernigov, etc.), which emphasized the desire of the ruling strata of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to return these lands to its composition.