Piotrków Governorate
| Piotrków Governorate Петроковская губерния Gubernia piotrkowska | |||||||||
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| Governorate of Russian Empire | |||||||||
| 1867–1915 | |||||||||
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.svg) Location within the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Capital | Petrokov | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• | 12,249.4 km2 (4,729.5 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1897[1] | 1,403,901 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1867 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1915 | ||||||||
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Piotrków Governorate (Template:Lang-ru; Template:Lang-pl) was one of the administrative divisions (guberniya; gubernia) in the Kingdom of Poland, established in 1867 by splitting some areas of the Radom and Warsaw Governorates. Its capital was in Petrokov (Russian: Петроко́в) in modern day Piotrków Trybunalski.
History
It was created in 1867, split off from parts of Radom and Warsaw Governorates. It consisted of uzeyds of Będzin, Częstochowa, Radomsko and Łódź.
Language
- By the Imperial census of 1897.[2] In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.
| Language | Number | percentage (%) | males | females |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polish | 1 011 928 | 72.07 | 497 412 | 514 516 |
| Yiddish | 213 562 | 15.21 | 104 914 | 108 648 |
| German | 148 765 | 10.59 | 72 445 | 76 320 |
| Russian | 19 232 | 1.36 | 14 938 | 4 294 |
| Czech | 4 987 | 0.35 | 2 563 | 2 424 |
| Ukrainian | 2 723 | 0.19 | 2 622 | 101 |
| Other[3] | 2 614 | 0.18 | 2 153 | 461 |
| Persons that didn't name their native language |
90 | >0.01 | 49 | 41 |
| Total | 1 403 901 | 100 | 697 096 | 706 805 |
References and notes
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- ^ "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).
- ^ Language Statistics of 1897 (in Russian)
- ^ Languages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000
Further reading
- William Henry Beable (1919), "Governments or Provinces of the Former Russian Empire: Piotrkov", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook – via Open Library
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