Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Voivode is a Slavic title that originally denoted the principal commander of a military force. The word gradually came to denote the governor of a province; the territory ruled or administered by a voivode is known as a voivodeship. In English, the title is often translated as "prince", "duke", or, as in Bram Stoker''s Count Dracula, "count". The Polish title is sometimes rendered in English as "palatine" or "count palatine", in charge of a palatinate. In Slavic terminology, the rank of a voivode is in some cases considered equal of that of a German Herzog.The title was used in medieval Bulgaria, Bohemia, Bosnia, Croatia, Transylvania, Poland, Moscow (later Tsardom of Russia), Serbia, Republic of Macedonia, Moldavia, Wallachia, Halych, Volhynia, Novgorod Republic, Chernigov, Kiev. Later, voivode was the highest military rank in the principalities of Montenegro and Serbia, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.