The Dorpat Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo dorpackie or województwo derpskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Duchy of Livonia, part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from 1598 till the Swedish conquest of Livonia in the 1620s. Polish ( język polski, polszczyzna) is the Official language of Poland. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, officially the Commonwealth of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania also known as the Most Serene Republic Sweden was between 1611 and 1718 one of the Great powers of Europe Livonia (Līvõmō Latvian and Livonija Estonian: Liivimaa; Finnish: Liivinmaa; German and Swedish: Livland
The seat of the voivode was Dorpat (Tartu). A voivode or waywode is a Slavic title that originally denoted the principal commander of a military force Tartu is the second largest City of Estonia. In contrast to Estonia's political and financial capital Tallinn, Tartu is often considered the intellectual Voivodes of Dorpat included Kasper Doenhoff (1627-1634), Gothard Jan Tyzenhauz (1634-1640), Andrzej Leszczyński (1606-1651). Kasper D(oenhoff (Kaspar von Dönhoff Kacper Denhoff 1587 - 1645 was a Baltic-German noble ( Reichsfürst) of the Holy Roman Empire and a noble Andrzej Leszczyński (1606&ndash1651 was Voivode of Dorpat Voivodeship, Imperial Count and a supporter of Polish Calvinists.