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1792–1796 unit of Russia

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Volhynia ViceroyaltyВолынская наместничество
Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire
1792–1796
Coat of arms of Volyn Coat of arms
CapitalNovograd-Volynsky
Zhitomir (officially since 1804)
History 
• 2nd partition of Poland 1792
• transformed into a governorate 1 August 1796
Political subdivisionsGovernorates of Russian Empire
Preceded by Succeeded by
Wołyń Voivodeship (1569–1795)
Izyaslav Viceroyalty
Volhynia Governorate

Volhynia Viceroyalty (Russian: Волынское наместничество, romanizedVolynskoye namestnichestvo) was an administrative-territorial unit (namestnichestvo) of the Russian Empire, created at the end of 1795 after the third Partition of Poland from the territory of the Izyaslav Viceroyalty and Wołyń Voivodeship.

Three partitions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

References

Historical regions in present-day Ukraine
Geographical regions
States and tribes of classical antiquity
and the Early Middle Ages
Principalities of Kyivan Rus'
Post-Mongol era regions
Polish–Lithuanian regions
Ottoman provinces
Cossack regions
Imperial Russian regions
Austro-Hungarian provinces
20th-century regions and states
Ethno-Ukrainian regions abroad

Subdivisions of the Russian Empire
Governorates
(List)
Oblasts
Oblasts of Stepnoy Krai
Oblasts of Turkestan Krai
Caucasus Viceroyalty
Baltic Governorates³
Governorates of Finland
Governorates of Poland
Governorates of
Galicia and Bukovina
Dependencies
¹ Italics indicates renamed or abolished governorates, oblasts, etc on 1 January 1914.
² An asterisk (+) indicates governorates formed or created with renaming after 1 January 1914.
³ Ostsee or Baltic general-governorship was abolished in 1876.
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