also historically known by different names in other languages – Polish: Czernihów; Yiddish: טשערניגאָב. Chernihiv was first mentioned (as Черниговъ)[citation...

Province, and was divided into two counties: Czernihów and Nowogród Siewierski. Local sejmiks took place at Czernihów, and it had two senators in the Polish–Lithuanian...