voivodeship

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voivodeship

(ˈvɔɪvəʊdʃɪp)
n
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the area which is governed by a voivode
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the position of a voivode
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This request was argued by the fact that between 1849 and 1860, Banat belonged to the Yugoslavian voivodate, the province being the granary of Serbia and an important defending area in front of Belgrade.
From the year 1200 onwards, it came to designate the whole area surrounded by the Carpathians and which made up the Voivodate of Transylvania, with its seven noble counties and with the lands given to the Szeklers (Terra Siculorum) and the Saxons (Terra Saxonum, Fundus Regius or Konigsboden).
Villages and towns "Crown Mountain" Carpathian and Carpathian circum permanence and stability backbone of were Romanians, despite great difficulties, sacrifices and losses led to the establishment formations "terrae" then towards the middle of Medieval period the Romanian feudal the voivodates' affirmation through an irreversible affirmation of the Romanian people, the conditions of a continuous and permanent demographic force, vitality and unity social/cultural and linguistic domain-specific Carpathians.