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VOIVODE (also Vaivode, Vayvode, Wayvode, &c., Med. Gr. oe 68os) , a See also:title in use among certain See also:Slavonic peoples, meaning literally " See also:leader of an See also:army " (S1. voi, See also:host, army; voiditi, to See also:lead), and so applied at various periods and in various eastern See also:European countries to rulers, See also:governors or officials of varying degree. It is best known as the title of the princes of See also:Moldavia and Wallachia. In these states the title remained in use from the earliest times until 1658 in the See also:case of the first See also:state, and until 1716 in that of the second, when it gave way to See also:Hospodar (q.v.). During the See also:period of Hungarian domination of Transylvania (1004–1526) it was governed by a voivode as an Hungarian See also:province, the last voivode raising himself to the position of an See also:independent See also:prince. In See also:Poland the title was used of certain administrative officials; See also:Polish historians latinized it by palatinus. At the See also:present See also:day voivode is used, in its See also:original sense of a high military officer, in the Montenegrin . army, where it corresponds to the See also:general officer in other European armies.

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