Volhynian Viceroyalty

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Volhynian Vice-royalty
Волынская наместничество
Vice-royalty of Russian Empire
1792–1796
Coat of arms of Volyn
Coat of arms
CapitalNovograd-Volynsky
Zhitomir (officially since 1804)
History
History 
• 2nd partition of Poland
1792
• transformed into a governorate
1 August 1796
Political subdivisionsGovernorates of Russian Empire
Preceded by
Succeeded by
POL województwo wołyńskie IRP COA.svg Wołyń Voivodeship (1569–1795)
Volhynian Governorate COA of Volin gubernia.png

Volhynian Vice-royalty (Russian: Волынское наместничество) was an administrative-territorial division of the Russian Empire, created at the end of 1795 after the third Partition of Poland from the territory of the and Wołyń Voivodeship.

Three partitions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

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