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Grodno province is one of the northwestern provinces of the Russian Empire with a center in the city of Grodno.In 1501, with the administrative division of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania into governorship, the northwestern part of the Grodno province belonged to the Trosky Voivodeship, the North-Eastern-Novogrudok, and the South was originally Narevsky, and since 1520, the Land of the Podlyask Voivodeship, which formed the Brest Voivodeship in 1596.This administrative division was preserved until the third section of the Commonwealth in 1795 from the unit, which passed to the Russian Empire in 1795, was formed since 1796. Slonim province consisting of 8 counties (including Grodno).A year later, in 1797, the Slonim province was connected to Vilenskaya, under the name of the Lithuanian province, and five years later, by decree of 1801, was separated in the former composition from Vilenskaya, with renaming to Grodno.In this form, it lasted 40 years before the attachment to it in 1842 of the Belokostok region.At the beginning of the 20th century, the Grodno province included 9 counties.In 1920, the territory of the Grodno province departed to Poland |
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