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Definition of Voivodes

Voivode
Voivode Voi"vode, n. See Waywode. --Longfellow.
voivode
Waywode Way"wode, n. [Russ. voevoda, or Pol. woiewoda; properly, a leader of an army, a leader in war. Cf. Vaivode.] Originally, the title of a military commander in various Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers. [Written also vaivode, voivode, waiwode, and woiwode.]

Meaning of Voivodes from wikipedia

- ministers. In cyclical reports, the voivodes informed among other things, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other voivodes about the public mood and actions...
- this remote region. Thus the voivodes were never autonomous, but remained provincial officials of the kings. The voivodes were heads of Fehér County from...
- -jə-/; Romanian: Vlad Drăculea [ˈdrəkule̯a]; 1428/31 – 1476/77), was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death in 1476/77. He is often...
- with voivode of Vilnius and Grand Chancellors for power and prestige. Voivodes were the ex officio members of the Lithuanian Council of Lords. Voivodes had...
- A list of politicians occupying the seat of voivodes in the Third Republic of Poland from the introduction of a new territorial division of Poland into...
- Hungary, the use of the title voivode is do****ented primarily in the lands under the rule of the Hungarian kings. Vlach voivodes were first mentioned in 1247...
- up voivode, voivod, voivoda, voyevoda, or vojvoda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up wojewoda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Voivode is...
- Ludza (Lucyn), Krustpils (Kreutzburg). The seat of the voivode was Wenden (Cēsis). The voivodes were as follow: 1598–1602 Jürgen von Farensbach 1602-1602...
- including a previous ruler's **** sons, being defined as os de domn, "of Voivode marrow", or as having heregie, "heredity" (from the Latin hereditas); the...
- Benislawscy, Sokolowscy, Kubliccy, Wereszczynscy (...)" This is a list of the voivodes for Inflanty: 1677–1695 Jan Teodor Schlieben 1695–1696 Jan Andrzej Plater...