Siedlce Governorate[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire.

Siedlce Governorate map in 1896

History

It was created in 1867 from the division of the Lublin Governorate. It was in fact a recreation of the older Podlasie Governorate, but now renamed to Siedlce Governorate. Siedlce Governorate was abolished in 1912 and its territory was divided between Lublin Governorate, Łomża Governorate and the newly created Kholm Governorate.

Language

  • By the Imperial census of 1897.[2] In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.

Notes

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References

  1. ^ "Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г." [The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897]. Demoscope Weekly (in Russian).
  2. ^ Language Statistics of 1897 (in Russian)
  3. ^ Languages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000

See also

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