Voïvodies of Poland
A voïvodie (województwo) is a unit of administrative division of Poland (area) where (starting from January 1st, 1999) one finds simultaneously the administration of the state and the decentralized administration of the regional community, with complementary competences. The voïvode is the representative of the Council of Ministers, and he is the chief of the administrations of the state in the area, with the mode of the prefect of the area in France. For the regional community, the deliberating assembly is named diétine (sejmik), chaired by a president of the diétine. The marshal of the voïvodie (marszałek województwa) of it is the person in charge of the executive. The term is sometimes lexiconized, in an alternative French way, under voïévodie (with the image of Polish and several European languages), but the voïvodie term is however much more frequent (and existing in a comparable form in other languages). The French term of palatinat is not any more but of historical use. Each voïvodie is divided into districts (powiat). After the administrative reform of January 1st, 1999, the number of the voïvodies fell by 49 to 16, returning about to their traditional dimensions former to 1975.
Below, the current list of the voïvodies:
- Voïvodie of Low-Silesia ( Dolnośląskie )
- Voïvodie of Low-Carpates the ( Podkarpackie )
- Voïvodie de Cujavie-Poméranie ( Kujawsko-Pomorskie )
- Voïvodie of Large-Poland ( Wielkopolskie )
- Voïvodie de Łódź ( Łódzkie )
- Voïvodie de Lublin ( Lubelskie )
- Voïvodie de Lubusz ( Lubuskie )
- Voïvodie de Mazovie ( Mazowieckie )
- Voïvodie d' Opole ( Opolskie ) called sometimes central Silesia
- Voïvodie of Small-Poland ( Małopolskie )
- Voïvodie de Podlachie ( Podlaskie )
- Voïvodie de Poméranie ( Pomorskie )
- Voïvodie de Poméranie Western ( Zachodniopomorskie )
- Voïvodie of Silesia ( śląskie ) called sometimes High-Silesia
- Voïvodie of Holy-Cross ( świętokrzyskie )
- Voïvodie de Varmie-Mazurie ( Warmińsko-Mazurskie )
Voïvodies out of Poland
The term of voïvodie was used to qualify various historical and geographical subdivisions in other countries: the Romania (Valachie, Moldavie, Transylvania) and the Voïvodine, autonomous region in the north of the Serbia.
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