Vilnius Voivodeship
| Vilnius Voivodeship | |||||||||
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| Voivodeship of Grand Duchy of Lithuania (part of the federative Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth since 1569) | |||||||||
| 1413–1795 | |||||||||
Vilnius Voivodeship in red. Voivodeship's borders did not change since the Union of Lublin. | |||||||||
Vilnius Voivodeship in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | |||||||||
| Capital | Vilnius | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• | 44,200 km2 (17,100 sq mi) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 1413 | |||||||||
| 1795 | |||||||||
| Political subdivisions | counties (aka. pavietas, powiat): five | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Lithuania Belarus Latvia¹ | ||||||||
| ¹ Small portion around Aknīste | |||||||||
The Vilnius Voivodeship (Latin: Palatinatus Vilnensis, Lithuanian: Vilniaus vaivadija, Polish: województwo wileńskie, Belarusian: Віленскае ваяводства) was one of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's voivodeships, which existed from the voivodeship's creation in 1413 to the destruction of the Lithuanian state in 1795. This voivodeship was Lithuania's largest, most politically and economically important.