voivodeship

Meaning

Noun

• The office, position, rank, or title of a voivode.
• The jurisdiction of a voivode, comparable to a countship or a county.
• The highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland, comparable to a province or state.

Origin

• . Voivode is variously derived from a number of Slavic languages including Bulgarian войвода, Czech vojevoda, Polish wojewoda, Russian воево́да, and Serbo-Croatian vojvoda, војвода, all from Proto-Slavic *vojevoda, from *voji (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-) + *-e- + *vodìti (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ-).