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Parnawa Voivodeship

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Województwo parnawskie
Parnawa Voivodeship
Voivodeship of Livonia¹
1598–1621 →

Coat of arms of Parnawa

Coat of arms
Location of Parnawa
Parnawa Voivodeship in the Duchy of Livonia.
Capital Parnawa
History
 - Established 1598
 - Polish–Swedish War 1621
Area 12,000 km2 (4,633 sq mi)
¹ The Duchy of Livonia was a vassal to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania until the Union of Lublin in 1569, and after that a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

The Parnawa Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo parnawskie) [1] was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Duchy of Livonia, part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, since it was formed in 1598 till the Swedish conquest of Livonia in the 1620s.

The seat of the voivode was Parnawa (Pärnu).

[edit] Voivodes

The voivodes of Dorpat Voivodeship. [1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Niesiecki, Kasper (1846) (in Polish). Herbarz polski Kaspra Niesieckiego. Waif. pp. P.228. http://books.google.com/books?id=sGBJAAAAIAAJ&printsec. 
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Greater Poland		 Map indicating the administrative division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1619
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Polish Livonia
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