Voivode (/ˈvɔɪvoʊd/ VOY-vohd), also spelled voivod, voievod or voevod and also known as vaivode (/ˈvaɪvoʊd, ˈveɪ-/ V(A)Y-vohd), voivoda, vojvoda, vaivada...
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Vlad the Impaler (redirect from Voivode tepes)
-jə-/; Romanian: Vlad Drăculea [ˈdrəkule̯a]; 1428/31 – 1476/77), was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death in 1476/77. He is often...
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up voivode, voivod, voivoda, voyevoda, or vojvoda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up wojewoda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Voivode is...
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The Voivode of Transylvania (German: Vojwode von Siebenbürgen; Hungarian: erdélyi vajda; Latin: voivoda Transsylvaniae; Romanian: voievodul Transilvaniei)...
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voivode was a leader of certain Vlach (Romanian) communities in the Kingdom of Hungary and western Balkans, during the Middle Ages. The term voivode is...
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Volhynian Voivodeship (redirect from Voivode of Wołyń)
Volhynian Voivodeship or Wołyń Voivodeship may refer to: Volhynian Voivodeship (1569–1795) Wołyń Voivodeship (1793) [pl] Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939)...
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List of princes of Wallachia (redirect from Voivode of Wallachia)
including a previous ruler's bastard sons, being defined as os de domn, "of Voivode marrow", or as having heregie, "heredity" (from the Latin hereditas); the...
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Masovian Voivodeship (redirect from Voivode of Mazowsze)
government is headed by the province's voivode (governor) who is appointed by the Polish Prime Minister. The voivode is then assisted in performing his duties...
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Trakai Voivodeship (redirect from Voivode of Trock)
officials – voivodes and his deputy castellan. The voivodeship was divided into four powets [be]: Grodno, Kaunas, Trakai (ruled directly by the voivode), and...
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Parnawa Voivodeship (redirect from Voivode of Parnawa)
1598 until the Swedish conquest of Livonia in the 1620s. The seat of the voivode was Parnawa (Pärnu). The voivodeship was created by King Zygmunt III Waza...
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This is a list of Chetnik voivodes. Voivode (Slavic languages for 'war-leader' / 'war-lord') is a Slavic as well as Romanian title that originally denoted...
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This is the list of voivodes of Chernihiv. A Chernihiv voivode was a Muscovite military position in Cossack Hetmanate. Prince Feodor Mezetskiy (1534–1537)...
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Nowogródek Voivodeship (redirect from Voivode of Nowogródek)
Nowogródek Voivodeship can refer to: Nowogródek Voivodeship (1507–1795) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Nowogródek Voivodeship (1919–1939) in the...
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Chernihiv Voivodeship (redirect from Voivode of Czernihów)
Partitions of Poland in 1772/1795. In 1635, Marcin Kalinowski was the first voivode (governor) of the Chernihiv Voivodeship. The voivodeship was part of the...
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Movilă, Voivode (1595–1600, 1600–1606) Simion Movilă, Voivode (1606–1607) Mihail II Movilă, Voivode (1607, 1607) Constantin I Movilă, Voivode (1607, 1607–1611)...
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1900), was a Bulgarian revolutionary. Captain Petko Voivode may also refer to: Captain Petko Voivode (TV series), a Bulgarian TV series released in 1981...
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al II-lea Dracul) or Vlad the Dragon (before 1395 – November 1447), was Voivode of Wallachia from 1436 to 1442, and again from 1443 to 1447. He is internationally...
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Voivode of Lublin, rotmistrz pancerny Adam Tarło (1708–1772) – General Adam Tarło (died 1710) – Voivode of Smoleńsk Adam Tarło (died 1719) – Voivode of...
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Mstsislaw Voivodeship (redirect from Voivode of Mścisław)
King Zygmunt August was renamed into a voivode, while the Duchy was turned into a voivodeship. First Voivode of Mscislaw was Jerzy Oscik, Traby coat...
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Negru Vodă ("[The] Black Voivode" or "[The] Black Prince"), also known as Radu Negru ("Radu [the] Black"), was, according to the legend, the founder and...
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Minsk Voivodeship (redirect from Voivode of Mińsk)
the tribunal abandoned Minsk and held its sessions in Hrodna. Notable voivodes of Minsk include Balcer Strawiński (1631–33), Aleksander Suszka (1633–38)...
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signed with "Io Mircea voievod, din mila lui Dumnezeu, domn" ("Io Mircea voivode, by God's mercy, lord"). Due to his anti-Ottoman views, Emperor Maximilian...
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also a voivode of Trakai. After Gregory's death, the family started losing its influence and prestige. Gregory had three sons, Gregory, voivode of Navahrudak...
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from the Basarab dynasty of Wallachian origin, was installed as the new Voivode of Moldavia. With Ottoman support, Ioan III ("Ioan the Terrible") ascended...
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parts of Transylvania (as Count of the Székelys) and held the title of Voivode of Transylvania in the 14th century. The Lackfi family were one of the...
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Poznań Voivodeship (redirect from Voivode of Poznań)
Poznań Voivodeship was the name of several former administrative regions (województwo, rendered as voivodeship and usually translated as "province") in...
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This the list of voivodes of Kiev. A Kiev voivode (Polish: wojewoda kijowski) was the major administrative position in Kiev Voivodship, in the Grand Duchy...
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Polotsk Voivodeship (redirect from Voivode of Połock)
starosta of Połock, and in app. 1500, the starosta was renamed into the Voivode of Połock, while the Duchy was turned into a voivodeship, divided into...
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Rareș, Voivode (1527–1538, 1541–1546) Ștefan V Lăcustă, Voivode (1538–1540) Alexandru III the Evil, Voivode (1540–1541) Ilie II Rareș, Voivode (1546–1551)...
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Bogdan the Founder (section Voivode of Moldavia)
Întemeietorul), was the first independent ruler, or voivode, of Moldavia in the 1360s. He had initially been the voivode, or head, of the Vlachs in the Voivodeship...
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