The Silesian voivodeship's government is headed by the province's voivode ( governor ) who is appointed by the Polish Prime Minister.

The voivode is then assisted in performing his duties by the voivodeship's marshal, who is the appointed speaker for the voivodeship's executive and is elected by the sejmik ( provincial assembly ).

The current voivode of Silesia is Zygmunt Łukaszczyk, whilst the present marshal is Bogusław Śmigielski.

The Greater Poland voivodeship's government is headed by the province's voivode ( governor ) who is appointed by the Polish Prime Minister.

The voivode is then assisted in performing his duties by the voivodeship's marshal, who is the appointed speaker for the voivodeship's executive and is elected by the sejmik ( provincial assembly ).

The current voivode of Greater Poland is Piotr Florek, whilst the present marshal is Marek Woźniak.

Administrative authority at voivodeship level is shared between a government-appointed governor called a voivode ( Polish wojewoda ), an elected assembly called a sejmik, and an executive chosen by that assembly.

It is the seat of Lubusz Voivodeship's elected assembly ( sejmik ) and executive ( the seat of the centrally-appointed governor or voivode being Gorzów Wielkopolski ).

Gorzów serves as the seat of the centrally appointed voivode or governor, while Zielona Góra is the seat of the elected regional assembly ( sejmik ) and the executive elected by that assembly, headed by the marszałek.

According to legend the Polish voivode Piotr Włostowic of Dunin ( 1080 – 1153 ) had a fieldstone church built on the hill in the west of Lubin, where about 1230 a castellany and a village arose that until today is called the Old Town ().

The latter Hungarian name Vajdahunyad ( voivode Hunyad ) is a direct referral to John Hunyadi.

The territory ruled or administered by a voivode is known as a voivodeship.

In Slavic terminology, the rank of a voivode is considered equal of that of a German Herzog.

The tradition of electing a voivode is very old and dates back to the times of the early Slavs.

In modern Poland, a voivode ( wojewoda ), appointed by the central government in Warsaw, is the governor of a voivodeship.

However, the voivodeship was not formed at that time, nor was a voivode appointed, only a vice-voivode.

The new voivodeship existed between 1849 and 1860 and the title of great voivode ( Grosswojwod ) belonged to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria himself, though it was ruled by an appointed governor.

After the king's victory, one of his loyal adherents, Thomas Szécsényi was appointed voivode who suppressed a Saxon revolt in 1324.

Now the sultan appointed Stephen Báthory, a Catholic politician, voivode.

On 22 July 1664 he received the office of the voivode of Kiev, and on 2 January 1665 he was appointed Field Crown Hetman.

Omer-paša promised Vukalović that he would continue his office as voivode of Zubac, Kruševica, Dračevica and Sutorina, but this was not held, he instead appointed him bimbaša of 500 pandurs who would secure peace along the borders.

The head of the administration was headed by a voivode appointed by the president of Poland to act as a representative of the central government.

( The voivode appointed by Sigismund was basically involved in Hungarian politics in Buda and with his estates in Northern Hungary, and was not interested in Transylvanian issues.

They were appointed from prominent magnate families and competed only with voivode of Vilnius and Grand Chancellors for power and prestige.

Lithuanian statesman Martynas Goštautas was appointed as the first voivode of Kiev the same year ; his appointment was met by hostility from locals.

* Moldavia becomes a vassal of the Turkish Empire, on the same conditions as Wallachia: the voivode will be designated by the Turks, but will be of the Orthodox faith.

Writ issued on 14 October 1465 by the Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, from his residence in Bucharest.

In the state affairs he was assisted by the voivode Vyshata and the bishop Luka Zhidiata.

* a legend mentioned in Descriptio Moldaviae by Dimitrie Cantemir links it to an aurochs hunting trip of the Maramureş voivode Dragoş, and the latter's chase of a star-marked bull.

Several Romanian historians ( e. g., Vlad Georgescu ) suggest that Thocomerius followed Bărbat ( the latter had been mentioned in a letter of grant of 8 January 1285 issued by King Ladislaus IV of Hungary as the brother and successor of Litovoi, a voivode in modern Oltenia ).

With the expansion of the Russian Empire the title of voivode was superseded by namestnik ( compared to viceroy ).

He was also the chief magistrate and military commander of Transylvania's counties, and this power inevitably drew the Székely and Saxon territories into his sphere of influence however these territories were governed by counts who were nominally independent of the voivode.

These actions were later recognized by the Austrian emperor, and Šupljikac was recognized as a voivode.

The rise of the mediaeval state of Wallachia followed in the 14th century, and the voivode ( Prince of Wallachia ) was represented in Oltenia by a ban-" the great ban of Craiova " ( with seat in Craiova after it was moved from Strehaia ).

The removal of about 1 / 2 of the frieze metopes, frieze and pedimental sculpture was a decision taken on the spot by Philip Hunt, Elgin's chaplain ( and temporary private secretary, i. e. representative, in Athens ), who persuaded the voivode ( governor of Athens ) to interpret the terms of the firman very broadly.

Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski (; 16 March 1892 near Kowno-12 April 1946 near Woking ) was a Polish politician and military officer who served as voivode of Białystok Voivodeship in 1930-1934, President of Warsaw in 1934 and Prime Minister of Poland from 1935 to 1936.

Competences and powers at voivodeship level are shared between the voivode ( governor ), the sejmik ( regional assembly ) and the executive.

The voivode acts as the head of central government institutions at regional level ( such as the police and fire services, passport offices, and various inspectorates ), manages central government property in the region, oversees the functioning of local government, coordinates actions in the field of public safety and environment protection, and exercises special powers in emergencies.

* marszałek województwa ( voivodeship marshal ): since 1999, the leader of the executive of a voivodeship ( one of Poland's 16 provinces ), elected by the regional assembly ( sejmik ), and co-existing with the government-appointed voivode ( governor ).

Voivode of the Nowogródek Voivodeship from 1921 to 1924 ; government delegate to Wilno Voivodeship ( 1924 – 1925 ) and later its voivode ( 1926 – 1931 ).

Brest Litovsk Voivodeship ( Belarusian: Берасьцейскае ваяводзтва, Polish: Województwo brzesko-litewskie ,) was a unit of administrative territorial division and a seat of local government ( voivode ) within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ( Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ) since 1566 until the May Constitution in 1791, and from 1791 to 1795 ( partitions of Poland ) as a voivodeship in Poland.