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Definition of voivode

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 voivode from wikipedia

- Voivode (/ˈvɔɪvoʊd/ VOY-vohd), also spelled voivod, voievod or voevod and also known as vaivode (/ˈvaɪvoʊd, ˈveɪ-/ V(A)Y-vohd), voivoda, vojvoda, vaivada...
- -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...
- The Voivode of Transylvania (German: Vojwode von Siebenbürgen; Hungarian: erdélyi vajda; Latin: voivoda Transsylvaniae; Romanian: voievodul Transilvaniei)...
- up voivode, voivod, voivoda, voyevoda, or vojvoda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up wojewoda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Voivode is...
- voivode was a leader of certain Vlach (Romanian) communities in the Kingdom of Hungary and western Balkans, during the Middle Ages. The term voivode is...
- Voivodes of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth were one of the highest ranking officials who could sit in the Senate of Poland. They were the officials...
- 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...
- signed with "Io Mircea voievod, din mila lui Dumnezeu, domn" ("Io Mircea voivode, by God's mercy, lord"). Due to his anti-Ottoman views, Emperor Maximilian...
- This is the list of voivodes of Chernihiv. A Chernihiv voivode was a Muscovite military position in Cossack Hetmanate. Prince Feodor Mezetskiy (1534–1537)...
- This is a list of Chetnik voivodes. Voivode (Slavic languages for 'war-leader' / 'war-lord') is a Slavic as well as Romanian title that originally denoted...