voivode
Sign in to savethumb|The voivode Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić on horseback Voivode is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe, in use since the Early Middle Ages. It primarily referred to the medieval rulers of the Romanian-inhabited states and of governors and military commanders of Polish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Balkan, Russian and other Slavic-speaking populations.
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- Etymology
- History
- Title of nobility and provincial governorship
- Bosnian grand dukes
- Ottoman Empire
- Ottoman Greece
- Polish–Lithuanian usage
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Second Polish Republic
- Polish People's Republic
- 1944–1950
- 1973–1990
- Modern Poland
- 1991–1999
- 1999–present
- Military rank
- Independent State of Croatia
- Serbia and Yugoslavia
- Notelist
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|The voivode Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić on horseback Voivode is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe, in use since the Early Middle Ages. It primarily referred to the medieval rulers of the Romanian-inhabited states and of governors and military commanders of Polish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Balkan, Russian and other Slavic-speaking populations.
In the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, voivode was interchangeably used with palatine. In the Tsardom of Russia, a voivode was a military governor. Among the Danube principalities, and in Bohemia, voivode was considered a princely title.