Pomeranian Voivodeship (1466–1772)
| Pomeranian Voivodeship Palatinatus Pomeranensis Województwo pomorskie | |||||||||
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| Voivodeship of Poland¹ Part of Royal Prussia and Greater Poland provinces | |||||||||
| 1466–1772 | |||||||||
Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | |||||||||
| Capital | Skarszewy | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• | 12,907 km2 (4,983 sq mi) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 21 February 1454 | |||||||||
| 1 October 1466 | |||||||||
| 1 July 1569 | |||||||||
| 5 August 1772 | |||||||||
| Political subdivisions | counties: 8 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Poland Russia² | ||||||||
| ¹ Voivodeship of the Polish Crown in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland before 1569. ² Small portion of the Vistula Spit around Polski | |||||||||
The Pomeranian Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo pomorskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1454/1466 until the First partition of Poland in 1772. From 1613 the capital was at Skarszewy.
The name Pomerania derives from the Slavic po more, meaning "by the sea" or "on the sea".