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'Trakai Voivodeship' (Lithuanian: ''Trakų vaivadija'', Polish: ''Województwo Trockie'') was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 15th century until 1795.

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History

List of voivodes

Administrative division

History

Trakai Voivodeship was established by the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas in 1413, replacing the former Duchy of Trakai, which existed as early as under the rule of Vytenis.
After the Union of Lublin it, together with whole Grand Duchy of Lithuania, became part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795. The biggest cities in the voivodeship had been Kaunas, Hrodna and Trakai.
==Voivodes==
The Voivode of Trakai () was one of the most important state offices in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Voivode had been the ''ex officio'' member of the Lithuanian Council of Lords. Voivodeship governors (wojewodas) had their residence in Trakai city, near Galvė Lake, north of the Trakai Peninsula Castle.

List of voivodes

★ Jonas Goštautas (1440)

★ Radvila Astikas (1466-1477)

★ Martynas Goštautas (1480-1483)

★ Albrecht Goštautas (1519-1522)

★ Stanislovas Goštautas (1542)

★ Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł (1590-1604)

★ Janusz Skumin Tyszkiewicz (1626-1640)

★ Piotr Pac (X 1640-VII 1642)

★ Marcjan Ogiński (since 1670)

★ Tadeusz Franciszek Ogiński (1770-1783)

★ Józef Mikołaj Radziwiłł (since 1788)

Administrative division

The Voivodeship was divided into 4 powiats:

★ Hrodna powiat

★ Kaunas powiat

★ Trakai powiat

★ Upytė powiat (note: the capital of this powiat was not Upytė, but Panevėžys)