Land is a historical unit of administration in Poland and Ruthenia .
6-620: Płock Land was a land ( administrative division ) of the Kingdom of Poland until 1495, and later, part of the Płock Voivodeship , Crown of the Kingdom of Poland , Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , from 1495 to 25 September 1793. The seat of its government was located in Płock . The land was divided into five counties . They were: Sierpc County was formed in the 1530s, from the portion of
12-524: A ziemia : ziemia lubelska is also called Lubelszczyzna , while ziemia opolska (named after Opole ) - Opolszczyzna . The term ziemia appeared for the first time in medieval Poland (12th-13th centuries), after the fragmentation of Poland . It referred to a former princedom or duchy , which was unified with the Polish Kingdom , and lost its political sovereignty, but retained its hierarchy of officials and bureaucracy . From around
18-506: A voivodeship and a certain voivode, but nevertheless retained some distinct privileges and properties, such as often having their own sejmik (regional parliament), and were still referred to as a ziemia , not a voivodeship. Some voivodeships, such as Ruthenian Voivodeship or Masovian Voivodeship , consisted of several ziemias , each divided into counties ( powiat ). Over subsequent centuries, ziemia s became increasingly integrated into their voivodeships and lost most of their autonomy. In
24-549: The Imperial Russia there was an institution of zemstvo or local council. Today they are not units of administration, and in modern Poland are only generic geographical terms referring to certain parts of Poland. Currently, the term ziemia may apply to any area, historic or not, which is located around a main town or city. In Ukraine the term was intended to be introduced by Mykhailo Hrushevskyi in Ukraine as part of
30-535: The 14th century some of the former princedoms, now ziemia s, were assigned to officials known as voivodes and became primary units of administration known as voivodeships (provinces). Therefore, the Duchy of Sandomierz was turned into the Land of Sandomierz , which in the early 14th century became Sandomierz Voivodeship . However, in some cases ziemia s were not transformed into voivodeships. They were subordinated to
36-519: The Bielsk County. Land (administrative unit of Poland) In the Polish language , the term is not capitalized ( ziemia chełmińska , Chelmno Land ; not Ziemia Chełmińska ). All ziemias are named after main urban centers (or gords ) of a given area: ziemia krakowska (after Kraków ), or ziemia lubelska (after Lublin ). In some cases, the suffix "-szczyzna" is added to the name of
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