Volhynian Viceroyalty

1792–1796 unit of Russia

Volhynia Viceroyalty
Волынская наместничество
Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire
1792–1796
Coat of arms of Volyn
Coat of arms
CapitalNovograd-Volynsky
Zhitomir (officially since 1804)
History 
1792
• transformed into a governorate
1 August 1796
Political subdivisionsGovernorates of Russian Empire
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Wołyń Voivodeship (1569–1795)
Izyaslav Viceroyalty
Volhynia Governorate

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.

Three partitions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

References

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Geographical regionsStates and tribes of classical antiquity
and the Early Middle AgesPrincipalities of Kyivan Rus'Post-Mongol era regionsPolish–Lithuanian regionsOttoman provincesCossack regionsImperial Russian regions
Austro-Hungarian provinces20th-century regions and statesEthno-Ukrainian regions abroad

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Governorates
(List)
Oblasts
Oblasts of Stepnoy Krai
Oblasts of Turkestan Krai
Caucasus Viceroyalty
Baltic Governorates³
Governorates of Finland
Governorates of Poland
Governorates of
Galicia and Bukovina
  • Lvov
  • Peremyshl
  • Tarnopol
  • Chernovtsy
Dependencies
¹ Italics indicates renamed or abolished governorates, oblasts, etc on 1 January 1914.
² An asterisk (*) indicates governorates formed or created with renaming after 1 January 1914.
³ Ostsee or Baltic general-governorship was abolished in 1876.