Editing Voivode (section)

==History==
[[File:Voivode Hat (heraldry).png|thumb|left|185px|Voivode Hat (heraldry)]]
During the [[Byzantine Empire]] it referred to military commanders mainly of Slavic-speaking populations, especially in the [[Balkans]], the [[First Bulgarian Empire|Bulgarian Empire]] being the first permanently established [[Slavs|Slavic]] state in the region. The title {{Lang|grc-latn|voevodas}} ({{langx|el|βοεβόδας}}) originally occurs in the work of the 10th-century [[Byzantine emperor]] [[Constantine VII]] in his ''[[De Administrando Imperio]]'', in reference to [[Hungarians|Hungarian]] military leaders.<ref name=eohou/><ref>M. Kokolakis, "Mia autokratoria se krisi, Kratiki organosi-Palaioi Thesmoi-nees prosarmoges" [An Empire in Crisis: State Organization – Old Institutions – New Adjustments], in Istoria tou neou ellinismou, Vol. 1, publ. Ellinika Grammata, Athens 2003, p.&nbsp;49.</ref>

The title was used in medieval: [[Bohemia]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Croatia]], [[Greece]], [[Hungary]], [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]], [[Moldavia]], [[Poland]], [[Rügen]], [[Russian Empire]], [[Ukraine]], [[Serbia]], [[Transylvania]] and [[Wallachia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wizlaw.de/html/polabisch.html|title=Der Minnesänger Wizlaw III. von Rügen|website=wizlaw.de}}</ref><ref name="eohou">{{Cite web |last=Starchenko |first=N. P. |title=ВОЄВОДА |url=http://resource.history.org.ua/cgi-bin/eiu/history.exe?&I21DBN=EIU&P21DBN=EIU&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=eiu_all&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=TRN=&S21COLORTERMS=0&S21STR=Voievoda |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine}}</ref> In the [[Late Middle Ages]] the voivode, [[Latin]] translation is {{Lang|la|comes palatinus}} for the principal commander of a military force, deputising for the monarch gradually became the title of territorial governors in Poland, Hungary and the [[Czech lands]] and in the Balkans.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kqM4AQAAMAAJ|title=Staat und gesellschaft im mittelalterlichen Serbien: studien zur kulturgeschichte des 13.-15. jahrhunderts|author1=Konstantin Jireček|author2=Vatroslav Jagić|publisher=In Kommission bei Alfred Hölder|year=1912}} <!--C. Jireček, Staat und Gesellschaft im Mittelalterlichen serbien, IV, Bonn 1919, pp.&nbsp;25, 26.--></ref>{{Clarify|reason=unclear wording|date=July 2022}}

During the [[Ottoman Greece|Ottoman administration of Greece]], the Ottoman Voivode of Athens resided in the ancient [[Hadrian's Library|Gymnasium of Hadrian]].<ref name="(Firm)1896">{{cite book|author=Karl Baedeker (Firm)|title=Athens and Its Immediate Environs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WXETAAAAYAAJ|year=1896|publisher=Baedeker|page=49}}</ref>

The Serbian [[Autonomous Province of Vojvodina]] descends from the [[Serbian Vojvodina]], with [[Stevan Šupljikac]] as Vojvoda or Duke, that became later [[Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar]]{{Clarify|reason=unclear wording|date=November 2024}}.