Volhynian Viceroyalty
| Volhynian Vice-royalty Волынская наместничество | |||||
| Vice-royalty of Russian Empire | |||||
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| Capital | Novograd-Volynsky Zhitomir (officially since 1804) | ||||
| History | |||||
| • | 2nd partition of Poland | 1792 | |||
| • | transformed into a governorate | 1 August 1796 | |||
| Political subdivisions | Governorates of Russian Empire | ||||
Volhynian Vice-royalty (Russian: Волынское наместничество) was an administrative-territorial division of the Russian Empire, created at the end of 1792 after the Second Partition of Poland from the territory of the Kijow Voivodeship and Wołyń Voivodeship.
Three partitions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
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