Draft:Grodno county (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth)

Grodno county was a territorial unit of the Trakai voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1413 and of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

The main town of the county was Grodno, in which the sejmiks of the nobility were held, with the right to elect 2 deputies to the Sejm and 2 deputies to the Tribunal.

A characteristic feature of the Grodno county was the predominance of royal property over that of the nobility, with a small share of clerical property. Within the Grodno district there were the starosties of Filipov, Przewalski, Przerośl, Wasilkow and smaller royal estates.

According to the administrative-territorial reform of 1565-1566, a part of Meretsk district with Berzhniki, Viejice and Leipalingis were merged to the district. At the end of the 16th century, the Mostovskaya and Razankovskaya domains were incorporated into Lida district. In 1588, when the royal lands of Lithuanian table estate were separated, the Grodno economy was created. In 1793 the Grodno county was transformed into the Grodno Voivodeship.

From the west, the county bordered Podlasie along the rivers Netta, Brzozówka and Czarna. Currently, it is divided between the territories of the Republic of Poland and Belarus.

References

Вялікае княства Літоўскае: Энцыклапедыя. У 3 т. / рэд. Г. П. Пашкоў і інш. Т. 1: Абаленскі – Кадэнцыя. – Мінск: Беларуская Энцыклапедыя, 2005, s. 505–506.
Jan Jakubowski, Powiat Grodzieński w XVI wieku, w: Prace Komisji Atlasu historycznego Polski, z. III, Kraków 1935, s. 99–109.
Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich. Tom V: Kutowa Wola – Malczyce. – Warszawa, 1884, s. 339.

External links

"Wielkie Księstwo Litewskie". (Administrative map)