voivode
Noun
Meaning
See Waywode.
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According to the charter, he was subject to Charles I of Hungary as the voivode of Wallachia.
After being elected King of Poland in 1575, Stephen Báthory made Sigismund's father voivode to administer Transylvania in his absence.
The republic was to pay a bakshish to the Turkish governor of the Morea and to the voivode who was stationed at the frontier of Thermisi (opposite Hydra).
And if the Great Sovereign allows to place a voivode in the city and rebuilt the city until the fall that in Plotava Circassians and residents built their houses and stock-piled their food".
Sigismund was still a child when the Diet of Transylvania elected him voivode at his dying father's request in 1581.
The voivode of Pomorze, Wiktor Lamot, stressed that "the part of Pomorze through which the so-called corridor runs must be cleansed of larger German holdings".