In the case of the Greater Poland region these were Poznań Voivodeship and Kalisz Voivodeship.

Following the end of World War I, the Greater Poland Uprising ( 1918 – 1919 ) ensured that most of the region became part of the newly independent Polish state, forming most of Poznań Voivodeship ( 1921 – 1939 ).

After the war, Greater Poland was fully within the Polish People's Republic, as Poznań Voivodeship.

With the reforms of 1975 this was divided into smaller provinces ( the voivodeships of Kalisz, Konin, Leszno and Piła, and a smaller Poznań Voivodeship ).

The present-day Greater Poland Voivodeship, again with Poznań as its capital, was created in 1999.

In the interwar Second Polish Republic, the city again became the capital of Poznań Voivodeship.

The city again became a voivodeship capital ; in 1950 the size of Poznań Voivodeship was reduced, and the city itself was given separate voivodeship status.

This status was lost in the 1975 reforms, which also significantly reduced the size of Poznań Voivodeship.

With the Polish local government reforms of 1999, Poznań again became the capital of a larger province ( Greater Poland Voivodeship ).

In the case of the Greater Poland region these were Poznań Voivodeship and Kalisz Voivodeship.

Following the end of World War I, the Greater Poland Uprising ( 1918 – 1919 ) ensured that most of the region became part of the newly independent Polish state, forming most of Poznań Voivodeship ( 1921 – 1939 ).

After the war, Greater Poland was fully within the Polish People's Republic, as Poznań Voivodeship.

With the reforms of 1975 this was divided into smaller provinces ( the voivodeships of Kalisz, Konin, Leszno and Piła, and a smaller Poznań Voivodeship ).

The present-day Greater Poland Voivodeship, again with Poznań as its capital, was created in 1999.

Poznań is the capital of the Greater Poland Voivodeship

Gniezno is located in the Greater Poland Voivodeship ( since 1999 ), previously in Poznań Voivodeship.

Born in Lwów in 1677, he was the son of Rafał Leszczyński, voivode of Poznań Voivodeship, and Anna Katarzyna Jabłonowska.

** Poznań Voivodeship

* Poznań Voivodeship

* Poznań Voivodeship

* Poznań Voivodeship

From 1975 to 1998, Poznań Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland, superseded by Greater Poland Voivodeship.

In 1836 – 1837 a cenotaph was built for Mieszko I and his successor Bolesław I the Brave in the Golden Chapel () at the Poznań Cathedral, where the damaged remains found in the 14th century tomb of Bolesław were placed.

Poznań Voivodeship during the 14th to 18th centuries.

From the 14th century until 1793, Poznań Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland.

In the 14th century, the village was located in western Lesser Poland, along a merchant road from Kraków to Poznań.

The lands around the Greater Polish town of Międzychód had been part of the Poznań Voivodeship since the 14th century, they were annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia during the Second Partition of Poland in 1793.

Krzyżanowski was born in Rożnowo, Grand Duchy of Poznań, into an old Polish noble family that bore the Świnka coat of arms, and whose roots reached back to the 14th century and ownership of the village of Krzyżanowo near Kościan.

* Poznań Voivodship ( 14th c .- 1793 )

The first marcantile exchanges emerged in Gdańsk ( 1379 ), Toruń ( 1385 ), Malbork ( 14th century ), Kraków ( 1405 ), Poznań ( 1429 ), Zamość ( 1590 ), Królewiec ( 1613 ) and Elbląg ( 1744 ).

Self-portraits and family members were her most frequent subjects, as seen in such paintings as Self-Portrait ( 1554, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna ), The Chess Game ( 1555, Muzeum Narodowe, Poznań ), which depicted her sisters Lucia, Minerva and Europa, and Portrait of Amilcare, Minerva and Asdrubale Anguissola ( c. 1557-1558, Nivaagaards Malerisambling, Niva, Denmark ).

Poznań: Koczalski, c. 1940

However in 1793, in the Second Partition of Poland, Poznań, came under the control of the Kingdom of Prussia, becoming part of ( and initially the seat of ) the province of South Prussia.

Paul von Hindenburg was born in Posen, Prussia ( Polish: Poznań ; until 1793 and since 1919 part of Poland

While the Poles constituted the majority of population in the area, they held only 4 out 21 official posts of higher level. Despite the colonization action carried on during period 1793 — 1806 there were hardly 11. 1 per cent of Germans in Poznań in 1815 5 From 1832 Poles could no longer hold higher posts at local administrative level ( landrat ).

In the events leading to the Second Partition of Poland, Poznań was occupied by a Prussian army on 31 January 1793.

A second partition of Poland was made July 17, 1793, Russia taking a large part of White Russia, half of Volhynia, all of Podolia, and the part of Ukraine which had previously been retained by Poland, and Prussians taking Great Poland ( Poznań ).

In the 14th century, Sandomierz Voivodeship and Kraków Voivodeship were created, and in 1474, Lublin Voivodeship was created of three Sandomierz Voivodeship counties.

The city was destroyed again by the Teutonic Knights ' invasion in 1331, and after an administrative reform became a county within the Kalisz Voivodeship ( since the 14th century till 1768 ).

Kraków Voivodeship 14th c .- 1795 (, Polish: )-a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland from 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772-1795 ( see

Sieradz Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772 – 1795.

In the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries Opoczno was one of the most important urban centers of Sandomierz Voivodeship, in which it was the capital of a county.

After Polish lands were reunified in the 14th century, the former principality became the Sandomierz Voivodeship, incorporating large areas of southeastern Poland.

Approximately in the half of 14th century Konin became a capital of Judicial County in Kalisz Voivodeship.

In the 14th century, Sieciechów ’ s significance diminished, and in the mid-15th century, the County of Stężyca was created, as part of Sandomierz Voivodeship.

It was the capital of the Łęczyca Duchy in the 13th century, and next it became the capital of Łęczyca Voivodeship since 14th till 18th century.

Łęczyca Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from the 14th century until the partitions of Poland in 1772-1795.

Brześć Kujawski Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772 – 1795.

Inowrocław Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from the 14th century to the First Partition of Poland in 1772.

In early years after its creation ( 14th century ), it was called Gniewkowo Voivodeship ( Województwo gniewkowskie ), from the town of Gniewkowo, the seat of local Piast princes.

Sandomierz Voivodeship (, ) was a unit of administration and local government in Poland from the 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772 – 1795.

Bełz Voivodeship (, ) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 14th century to the partitions of Poland in 1772 – 1795.

The Podole Voivodeship ( Polish: Województwo Podolskie ) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland, since the 14th century until 1793 / 1795, except for a short period of Ottoman Empire administration ( 1672 – 1699 ) as Podolia Eyalet.

Dzūkija was part of the Duchy of Trakai and later Trakai Voivodeship from the 14th to late 18th century.