Povit
A povit, also known as a county, was a type of historical territorial-administrative and judicial unit in Ukraine, administered by a starosta. Under the Russian Empire, the Russian administration introduced the system of uezds which locally were still referred in old manner as povits. After Ukraine declared its independence in 1918, povits remained in use until the introduction of raions in 1923.
Description
Counties were introduced in Ukrainian territories under Poland in the second half of the 14th century. More detailed norms were adopted in the Second Statutes of Lithuania of 1566.They were introduced in the eighteenth century in the Cossack State by the judicial reforms of Hetman Kyrylo Rozumovskyi – while the system of Cossack regiments and companies remained in use as well – and they became administrative and financial entities in 1782. Under the Russian Empire, counties were also introduced in Sloboda Ukraine, Southern Ukraine, and Right-Bank Ukraine.
In 1913, there were 126 counties in Ukrainian-inhabited territories of the Russian Empire. Under the Austrian Empire in 1914, there were 59 counties in Ukrainian-inhabited Galicia, 34 in Transcarpathia, and 10 in Bukovina. Counties were retained by the independent Ukrainian People's Republic of 1917–1921, and in First [Czechoslovak Republic|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, although they existed in the Zakarpattia Oblast until 1953.
List of povits
Volhynian Governorate
- Starokostiantyniv povit
- Iziaslav povit
- Novohrad-Volynskyi povit
- Polonne povit
- Zhytomyr povit
- Korosten povit
- Ovruch povit
Kyiv Governorate
- Berdychiv povit
- Lypovets povit
- Uman povit
- Radomyshl povit
- Chornobyl povit
- Skvyra povit
- Zvenyhorodka povit
- Kyiv povit
- Bila Tserkva povit
- Pereiaslav povit
- Bohuslav povit
- Tarashcha povit