Greater Poland Province, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland

Greater Poland Province Polish: Prowincja wielkopolska
Province of Poland
Location of the province within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Capital	Poznań
Political subdivisions	13 voivodeships and one duchy
Today part of	Poland Russia¹
¹Small portion of the Vistula Spit around Polski[1]

Greater Poland Province (Polish: Prowincja Wielkopolska) was an administrative division of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1795. The name of the province comes from the historic land of Greater Poland.

The Greater Poland Province consisted initially of twelve voivodeships (after 1768 thirteen voivodeships)^[2] and one duchy:

1. Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship
2. Chełmno Voivodeship
3. Gniezno Voivodeship, est. in 1768
4. Inowrocław Voivodeship
5. Kalisz Voivodeship
6. Łęczyca Voivodeship
7. Malbork Voivodeship
8. Masovian Voivodeship
9. Płock Voivodeship
10. Pomeranian Voivodeship
11. Poznań Voivodeship
12. Rawa Voivodeship
13. Sieradz Voivodeship
14. Prince-Bishopric of Warmia

The location of the Crown Tribunal for the Greater Poland Province (the highest appeal court of the province) was Piotrków Trybunalski, and after the Convocation Sejm (1764) also Poznań and Bydgoszcz.

Cities

Poznań, the capital of the province, in the 17th century

See also: Royal city in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth § Greater Poland Province

The five most influential cities, i.e. Warsaw, Poznań, Gdańsk, Toruń and Elbląg, enjoyed voting rights during the Royal elections.^[3]

References

1. Biskup, Marian; Tomczak, Andrzej (1955). Mapy województwa pomorskiego w drugiej połowie XVI w. (in Polish). Toruń. p. 129.
2. Lucjan Tatomir, Geografia ogólna i statystyka ziem dawnej Polski, Drukarnia "Czasu" W. Kirchmayera, Kraków, 1868, p. 147 (in Polish)
3. Polska encyklopedja szlachecka, Tom I (in Polish). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Kultury Historycznej. 1935. p. 42.