Miejsca odbywania sejmików koronnych na wygnaniu w latach 1648–1696
The seats of Crown dietines in exile, 1648–1696

Summary/Abstract: As a result of the wars of the second half of the 17th century, the gentry from a number of provinces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were forced to seek refuge from the enemy in other, safer provinces, and to hold their dietines in exile. In the years 1648–1649, the gentry from a number of Lesser Poland provinces were temporarily displaced, but most of them soon returned to their abodes. Citizens of the Ukrainian provinces were less fortunate. The Czerhnigovian, Bratslavian and Kievan gentry held virtually all of their dietines in that period in Włodzimierz in Volhynia. They convened in the Uniate cathedral church and in the Dominican Friars’ church. In their resolutions they continuously underscored the provisional but legal character of the place of their deliberations. The Ukrainian exiles (except Czernigovians) returned to their abodes in the 18th century. From 1672 to 1698, the Podolian gentry held their dietines in Halicz and later in Lviv (in Franciscan churches), and in 1699 in the Trinity Trenches, while Kamieniec Podolski was under Ottoman control.

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