a province of Poland, bounded on the east by Volhynia and the river Ucrain; on the north and north-east, by Budiac Tartary; on the south-east, by the river Niester, which separates it from Bessarabia and Moldavia in European Turkey on the south-west; and by the province of Red Ruthia on the north-west. It is usually divided into the Upper and Lower. In the Upper, which is the western part, the chief town is Kamieck, the capital of Podolia, and of a palatinate. In the Lower or eastern part of Podolia the chief town is Bracklaw, the capital of a palatinate.