voivode|voivodes in English
noun
(Archaic) military commander in Slavic countries; local governor of a town or province in a Slavic country (esp. Poland, Moldavia, Transylvania & Wallachia)
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1. Moskvitin reported his discoveries to Prince Shcherbatov, the Muscovite voivode in Tomsk.
2. In a battle near Vyborg Swedes were defeated but Russian voivodes decided not to lay siege to the fortress.
3. Researchers have found medieval Cannonballs from culverins that were most likely used by Wallacian Voivode Vlad III Dracula, more commonly known as …
4. In the Kingdom of Poland and later in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Castellans (Polish: Kasztelan) usually deferred to the higher ranking Voivodes, excepting three
5. Alexander expanded the Bureaucratical system by creating the "Council of the Voivode", the Chancellory and by adding (in 1403) the institution of Logofăt – Chancellor of the official Chancellery.
6. In 1582 Mikołaj Krzysztof "Sierotka" Radziwiłł, the Marshal of Lithuania, Voivode of Trakai–Vilnius and castellan of Šiauliai, started the construction of an imposing square three-storey "château".