Volhynian Viceroyalty
Volhynian Vice-royalty (Russian: Волынское наместничество) was an administrative-territorial division 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
| Volhynian Vice-royalty Волынская наместничество | |||||||||||
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| Vice-royalty of Russian Empire | |||||||||||
| 1792–1796 | |||||||||||
 Coat of arms
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| Capital | Novograd-Volynsky Zhitomir (officially since 1804) | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| 1792 | |||||||||||
• transformed into a governorate | 1 August 1796 | ||||||||||
| Political subdivisions | Governorates of Russian Empire | ||||||||||
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