Povit

Counties were introduced in Ukrainian territories under Poland (the Commonwealth Rzeczpospolita to be more precise) 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 (see Cossack host) – 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 (). ==List of povits==

Volhynian Governorate • Starokostiantyniv povit • Iziaslav povit • Novohrad-Volynskyi povit • Polonne povit (created out of portions of Novohrad-Volynskyi povit) • Zhytomyr povit • Korosten povit (created out of portions of Ovruch povit) • Ovruch povit Kyiv Governorate • Berdychiv povit • Lypovets povit • Uman povit • Radomyshl povit • Chornobyl povit (created out of portions of Radomyshl povit) • Skvyra povit • Zvenyhorodka povit • Kyiv povit • Bila Tserkva povit (renamed) • Pereiaslav povit (transferred from Poltava Governorate) • Bohuslav povit (renamed) • Tarashcha povit == References ==