Wenden Voivodeship

Infobox Former Subdivision
conventional_long_name = Wenden Voivodeship
native_name = "Województwo wendeńskie"
common_name = Wenden
subdivision = Voivodeship
nation = Livonia¹
year_start = 1598
event_start =
event_end = Polish–Swedish War
year_end = 1621
s1 = Duchy of Livonia (1629–1721)
flag_s1 = Naval Ensign of Sweden.svg
s2 = Inflanty Voivodeship
image_s2 =

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image_map_caption = Wenden Voivodeship in the Duchy of Livonia.
capital = Wenden
stat_area1 = 30000
stat_year1 =
stat_pop1 =
political_subdiv =
footnotes = ¹ The Duchy of Livonia was a vassal to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania until the Union of Lublin in 1569, and after that a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Wenden Voivodeship ( _pl. Województwo wendeńskie)cite book |language=Polish |title=Herbarz polski Kaspra Niesieckiego |last=Niesiecki |first=Kasper |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1846 |publisher=Waif |location= |isbn= |pages=P.228 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=sGBJAAAAIAAJ&printsec ] was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Duchy of Livonia, part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, since it was formed in 1598 till the Swedish conquest of Livonia in the 1620s. The remainder of Polish Livonia was named the Inflanty Voivodeship afterwards till First Partition of Poland in 1772.

The seat of the voivode was Wenden (Cēsis). Voivodes of Wenden include Joachim Tarnowski (1627-1641), Tomasz Sapieha (1641-1643), and Gerard Denhoff (1643-1648).

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