Mazovia (Polish: Mazowsze) is a historical region (dzielnica) in mid-north-eastern Poland. Borders of the Mazovian Voivodeship, which was created in 1999, do not reflect exactly its original shape (they do not include historically Mazovian Łomża and Łowicz, meanwhile include Lesser Polish Radom and Siedlce), but are roughly similar. Historical Mazovia existed since the Middle Ages until the partitions of Poland and consisted of three voivodeships with the capitals in Warszawa, Płock and Rawa Mazowiecka. In a narrower sense, the Mazovian Voivodeship was only the first of them (which however encompassed most of the region, only without the western lands). Between 1816 and 1844 another Mazovian Voivodeship (from 1837 Governorate) existed, encompassing the south of the region (along with Łęczy