A povit, or county (Ukrainian: повіт, romanized: povit), was a type of historical territorial-administrative and judicial unit in Ukraine, administered by a starosta.[1] Following annexation of Ukraine (historically the Cossack Hetmanate) by the Russian Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries as well as through the partitions of Poland, the Russian administration introduced the system of uezds which locally (in Ukrainian language) were still referred in old manner as povits.[2] After Ukraine regained its independence in 1918, povits remained until the introduction of raions in 1923.
Counties were introduced in Ukrainian territories under Poland (the Commonwealth Rzeczpospolita to be more precise) in the second half of the 14th century (Polish: powiat). More detailed norms were adopted in the Second Statutes of Lithuania of 1566.
In 1913, there were 126 counties in Ukrainian-inhabited territories of the Russian Empire.[1] Under the Austrian Empire in 1914, there were 59 counties in Ukrainian-inhabited Galicia, 34 in Transcarpathia, and 10 in Bukovina.[1] Counties were retained by the independent Ukrainian People's Republic of 1917–1921, and in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Romania until the Soviet annexations at the start of World War II. 99 counties formed the Ukrainian SSR in 1919, where they were abolished in 1923–25 in favour of 53 okruhas (in turn replaced by oblasts in 1930–32), although they existed in the Zakarpattia Oblast until 1953.[1][3]
List of povits per each governorateedit
Volhynian Governorateedit
Starokostiantyniv povit
Iziaslav povit
Novohrad-Volynskyi povit
Polonne povit (created out of portions of Novohrad-Volynskyi povit)
Zhytomyr povit
Korosten povit (created out of portions of Ovruch povit)
Ovruch povit
Kyiv Governorateedit
Berdychiv povit
Lypovets povit
Uman povit
Radomyshl povit
Chornobyl povit (created out of portions of Radomyshl povit)
Skvyra povit
Zvenyhorodka povit
Kyiv povit
Bila Tserkva povit (renamed)
Pereiaslav povit (transferred from Poltava Governorate)
Bohuslav povit (renamed)
Tarashcha povit
Referencesedit
^ abcde"County". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
^"Okruha". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
January 01, 1970
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