Voivodeship

//ˈvɔɪˌvəʊdˌʃɪp// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The office, position, rank, or title of a voivode (“a local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe; an administrative chief in modern Poland”). countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    The jurisdiction of a voivode, comparable to a countship or a county. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    The highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland, comparable to a province or state. countable

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"The Silesian Voivodeship is the most densely populated region of Poland."

Etymology

From voivode (“local ruler or official in parts of central and eastern Europe; administrative chief in Poland”) + -ship (suffix forming nouns indicating properties or states of being). Voivode is variously derived from a number of Slavic languages including Bulgarian войвода (vojvoda), Czech vojevoda, Polish wojewoda, Russian воево́да (vojevóda), and Serbo-Croatian vojvoda, војвода, all from Proto-Slavic *vojevoda (“army leader; duke; warlord”), from *voji (“army”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue; to persecute; to suppress”)) + *-e- + *vodìti (“to conduct; to lead”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to lead”)). Sense 3 is a semantic loan from Polish województwo.

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