Volhynian Viceroyalty
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Volhynia Viceroyalty Волынская наместничество | |||||||||||
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Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire | |||||||||||
1792–1796 | |||||||||||
Capital | Novograd-Volynsky Zhitomir (officially since 1804) | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
1792 | |||||||||||
• transformed into a governorate | 1 August 1796 | ||||||||||
Political subdivisions | Governorates of Russian Empire | ||||||||||
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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.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Partitions_of_Poland.png/200px-Partitions_of_Poland.png)
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