page_title: Chełm Land
hierarchical_section_title: Chełm Land
caption_attribution_description: English: Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772, 1793 and 1795, overlaid with the borders of the Second Polish Republic, 1918-1939; with Chełm Land or Ziemia chełmska in Polish, highlighted in burgundy.
context_page_description: Chełm Land or Kholmshchyna is a historic region of eastern Poland and the adjacent areas of present-day Ukraine and Belarus. In the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Chełm Land was an exclave of the Ruthenian Voivodeship, completely separated from the main part of it by the Bełz Voivodeship. The region's most important town was Chełm. In the Commonwealth, Chełm Land enjoyed a special status, and even though it belonged to the Ruthenian Voivodeship, in some documents it was described as a separate, Chełm Voivodeship.
context_section_description: Chełm Land or Kholmshchyna (Polish: ziemia chełmska or Chełmszczyzna, Ukrainian: Холмщина Kholmshchyna) is a historic region (ziemia) of eastern Poland and the adjacent areas of present-day Ukraine and Belarus. In the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795), Chełm Land was an exclave of the Ruthenian Voivodeship, completely separated from the main part of it by the Bełz Voivodeship. The region's most important town was Chełm. In the Commonwealth, Chełm Land enjoyed a special status, and even though it belonged to the Ruthenian Voivodeship, in some documents it was described as a separate, Chełm Voivodeship (Latin: Palatinatus Chelmensis).
caption: Chelm Land (burgundy) on the map of evolving Poland, 1619–1939. Base map, the Partitions of Poland by Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Overlay, borders and districts of the Second Polish Republic before the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939.
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