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Description: w:Voivodships of the Republic of Both Nations. The names of the voivodships are in Polish. In Polish the voivodships and other units of administrative division are traditionally referred to with their adjective forms, i.e. Płock Voivodship is referred to as (Województwo) Płockie (Literally Plockian voivodship), Podole Voivodship as (Województwo) Podolskie (literally Podolian Voivodship) and so on. The areas marked with light pink were lost to: Brandenburg in the treaties of Welawa and Bydgoszcz in 1657 Sweden and Brandenburg in the treaty of Oliwa in 1660 Muscovy in the Treaty of Andruszów in 1667 Muscovy in the Grzymułtowski's Peace Treaty of 1686
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