Volhynia Viceroyalty (Russian: Волынское наместничество, romanized: Volynskoye namestnichestvo) was an administrative-territorial unit (namestnichestvo) of the Russian Empire, created at the end of 1795 after the third Partition of Poland from the territory of the Izyaslav Viceroyalty and Wołyń Voivodeship.
Volhynia Viceroyalty Волынская наместничество | |||||||||||
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Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire | |||||||||||
1792–1796 | |||||||||||
Capital | Novograd-Volynsky Zhitomir (officially since 1804) | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
1792 | |||||||||||
• transformed into a governorate | 1 August 1796 | ||||||||||
Political subdivisions | Governorates of Russian Empire | ||||||||||
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