  the inflanty voivodeship (), or livonian voivodeship (), also known as polish livonia, was an administrative division and local government in the polishâlithuanian commonwealth, since it was formed in the 1620s out of the wenden voivodeship and lasted until the first partition of poland in 1772. the inflanty voivodeship was one of the few territories of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth to be ruled jointly by poland and lithuania. the inflanty voivodeship, also called the duchy of inflanty, due to a 1667 bill of the sejm, was the minority remainder of the duchy of livonia, which had been conquered by the swedish empire during the polishâswedish war of 1621â1625. the seat of the voivode was dyneburg (daugavpils). the name inflanty is derived through polonization of livland, the german name for livonia. in modern times the region is known as latgalia in the republic of latvia.culture and customs of the baltic states by kevin o'connor; p. 14 isbn 978-0-313-33125-1 zygmunt gloger in his monumental book historical geography of the lands of old poland provides this description of inflanty voivodeship: âthe land, called by the poles inflanty, in latin livonia, in german liefland, and in latvian widzzemme, had the area of 1,092 sq. miles (...) it was inhabited by the latvians, whose language is similar to lithuanian, but still differs from it, as the latvians interacted and mixed with the estonians in central and northern inf
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