In a letter to his Voivode, a Łódź county starosta warned that plunder of goods from stores and farms, was often accompanied by the rape of farmhands as in Zalesie, Olechów, Feliksin and Huta Szklana, not to mention other crimes, including murder-rape in Łagiewniki.
Voivod or Voivode, a Slavic term for a military commander or a governor of a voivodeship.
Bankalar Caddesi (English: Banks Street), alternatively known as the Voyvoda Caddesi (English: Voivode Street), located in the historic Galata quarter (present-day Karaköy) within the district of Beyoğlu (historic Pera) in Istanbul, Turkey, was the financial center of the Ottoman Empire.
The voivodeship had two senators, who were the Castellan and the Voivode (...) Among major cities were Brzesc, Pinsk, Biala Podlaska, Koden, Wolczyn and Kamieniec Litewski.
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Brest Litovsk Voivodeship (Belarusian: Берасьцейскае ваяводзтва, Polish: Województwo brzesko-litewskie ,) was a unit of administrative territorial division and a seat of local government (voivode) within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) since 1566 until the May Constitution in 1791, and from 1791 to 1795 (partitions of Poland) as a voivodeship in Poland.
Dan II of Wallachia (? – 1432), voivode (prince) of the principality of Wallachia
In early 17th century, voivode Mikołaj Sapieha erected a mansion in Dubno with four steeples, utterly destroyed during the Swedish Deluge.
In 1555 King made her marry Łukasz Górka, voivode of Poznań, Kalisz, Łęczyca and Brześć Kujawski again against her and her mothers` will, who wanted Halszka to marry Siemion Olelkowicz, Prince of Slutsk.
Ioan al IV-lea Potcoavă (or Ivan Pidkova – Іван Підкова in Ukrainian; also known as Ioan Sarpega, Ioan Creţul, and allegedly baptized as Nicoară Potcoavă; died June 16, 1578) was a prominent Cossack ataman, and Voivode (Prince) of Moldavia (November – December 1577).
John Hunyadi, Voivode of Transylvania, captain-general and regent of the Kingdom of Hungary (Ion Corvin is a Romanian variant of his name)
In 1689 after revolt of Peter I against Sophia he notified Peter about Sophia's conspiracy; for this he was elevated to the rank of the Duma nobleman and was sent as voivode to Verkhoturie.
Ivan Chodkiewicz (ca. 1420–1484), voivode of Kiev, ancestor of the Chodkiewicz family
He was the son of the Palatine of Podlaskie Voivodeship Stefan Mikołaj Branicki and Katarzyna Scholastyka Sapieha, the daughter of Hetman Kazimierz Jan Sapieha.
Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz, 1570–1642, voivode of Mścisław (1621–1626), Trakai (1626–1640), and Vilnius (1640–1642)
Józef became Stolnik of Lithuania in 1744, voivode of Nowogródek Voivodeship from 1755 to 1776 and starost of Busk, Ukraine, Korsuń, Dźwinogród, Wołpenia, Rakancin and Ławara.
Son of Stanisław Lubomirski, Voivode of the Kiev Voivodeship and the Bratslav Voivodeship, brother of Michał Lubomirski, Lieutenant General of the Polish Army himself too, heir of Równe and its dependences.
Karol Stanisław "Panie Kochanku" Radziwiłł (1734–1790), Voivode of Vilnius and Marshal of the Bar Confederation
Daughter of castellan Mikołaj Spytek Ligęza and Zofia Krasińska, the daughter of starost and voivod Stanisław Krasiński.
His paternal cousin was Obrad Konstantinović, a voivode (military commander) in Jadar.
Konstanty Ludwik Plater (born 1722 – died 31 March 1778 in Krāslava), was Castellan of Troki from 1770, voivode of Mstislavl from 1758 to 1770, Castellan of Polotsk from 1754 to 1758, the great Lithuanian Magnus Scriptor from 1746 to 1754, Maréchal of the Lithuanian Tribunal in 1754, and Starosta of Livonia and Dyneburg.
Prince Konstanty Wiśniowiecki (1564–1641) was a Polish nobleman, voivode of Belz since 1636, of Ruthenia since 1638 and starost of Czerkasy and Kamieniec was a wealthy, powerful and influential magnate, experienced in both politics and warfare.
During "the Deluge", when the Swedish armies invaded Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which was already struggling with Muscovy, the Voivode of Poznań, Krzysztof Opaliński, surrendered Greater Poland to Swedish king Charles Gustav.
It was the center of Chabad chasidism for over a decade, when the first rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi settled there in at the invitation of Prince Stanisław Lubomirski, voivode of the town, after his second imprisonment in 1800.
In 1998 Maria Wasiak became the final deputy-voivode of the Radom Voivodeship, before that region's amalgamation with others to form the Masovian Voivodeship as part of the Polish territorial divisions reforms in 1999.
Michał Grażyński (May 12, 1890, in Gdów – December 10, 1965, in London, United Kingdom) was a Polish military leader, social and political activist, doctor of philosophy and law, voivode of the Silesian Voivodeship, Scouting activist and president of Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego.
Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł (1635-1680) - Deputy Chancellor of Lithuania, Field Lithuanian Hetman, voivode of Wilno
One of his most famous descendants is voivode Milija, a prominent figure of the national Montenegrin epic The Mountain Wreath, written by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš.
The word palatinus and its derivatives also translate the titles of certain great functionaries in eastern Europe, such as the Slavic voivode, a military governor of a province.
Charters by Ştefan Cantacuzino (1715), Grigore II Ghica (1748), Alexander Ypsilantis (1776) and Constantine Ypsilantis (1803) have been preserved, and there is direct evidence of donations by earlier voivodes like Matei Basarab.
Prince Mirko Dimitri Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro, Grand Voivode of Grahovo and Zetà (17 April 1879 – 2 March 1918) was born at Cetinje, the second son of King Nicholas I of Montenegro and Milena Vukotic.
The Princely Church at Rădăuţi contained the graves of Bogdan I and his son Laţcu, both Voivodes/Princes of Moldavia, as well as a later ruler, Roman I of Moldavia.
Menaced by the growing privileges of boyars and threatened to lose land grants or be turned into serfs, the Wallachian seimeni rebelled in 1655, being crushed after Prince Constantin Şerban enlisted the help of George II Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania, as well as that of Moldavia's Voivode Gheorghe Ştefan.
Staniša (nickname: "Stanko") was born in Upper Zeta (corresponding roughly to the southern half of Cetinje municipality, Montenegro), which at the time was a nominal vassal of the Republic of Venice, under Great Voivode Stefan I Crnojević (r. 1451–1465), Stanko's grandfather.
Ottoman forces attempted to block the Venetian fleet in Bojana by clogging the mouth of Bojana with a cut tree trunks, just like Serbian voivode Mazarek did during Second Scutari War.
Mircea II ascended to the throne in 1442, as Vlad Dracul was in the Ottoman court negotiating for support from the Ottomans in an effort to better defend his rule against John Hunyadi, the voivode of Transylvania.
Descendants of the House of Basarab continued to rule Wallachia and, as recounted in surviving records from the time of Mihnea Turcitul (the young voivode in 1577–83 and 1585–91), the chronology of a century earlier indicates that the grandfather of Vlad VI, Vlad IV Călugărul Vlad the Monk was voivode from 1481 until his death in 1495.
He was a Voivode of Nowogródek Voivodeship from 1931 to 1932, and of Polesie Voivodeship from 1932 to 1939.
Wojciech Żukowski (born 1964), Polish politician, ex-Voivode of Lublin, member of Sejm