Volhynian Viceroyalty
| Volhynia Viceroyalty Волынская наместничество | |||||||||||
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| Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire | |||||||||||
| 1792–1796 | |||||||||||
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| 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.
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