Warsaw Governorate
Appearance
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Warsaw Governorate (Polish: Gubernia warszawska; Russian: Варшавская губерния) was an administrative unit (governorate) of the Congress Poland.
It was created in 1844 from the Masovia and Kalisz Governorates, and had the capital in Warsaw. In 1867 territories of the Warsaw Governorate were divided into three smaller governorates: a smaller Warsaw Governorate, Piotrków Governorate and the recreated Kalisz Governorate.
A small reform in 1893 increased the Warsaw Governorate's size with territories split from Płock and Łomża governorates.
Language
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- By the Imperial census of 1897.[1] In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.
Language | Number | percentage (%) | males | females |
---|---|---|---|---|
Polish | 1 420 436 | 73.52 | 687 210 | 733 226 |
Yiddish | 317 169 | 16.41 | 154 603 | 162 566 |
Russian | 87 850 | 4.54 | 13 551 | 1 586 |
German | 77 160 | 3.99 | 37 984 | 39 176 |
Ukrainian | 15 930 | 0.82 | 15 623 | 307 |
Romanian | 2 299 | >0.01 | 2 293 | 6 |
Latvian | 1 759 | >0.01 | 1 738 | 21 |
Estonian | 1 566 | >0.01 | 1 555 | 11 |
Tatar | 1 473 | >0.01 | 1 437 | 36 |
Belarusian | 1 343 | >0.01 | 1 234 | 109 |
Other[2] | 4 824 | 0.24 | 3 289 | 1 535 |
Persons that didn't name their native language |
54 | >0.01 | 33 | 21 |
Total | 1 931 867 | 100 | 977 948 | 953 919 |
Governors
- Evgeni Rozhnov (1863-24.10.1866)
- Baron Nikolai Medem (24.10.1866—01.01.1892)
- Yuliy Andreev (16.01.1892—27.02.1897)
- Dmitri Martynov (03.03.1897—20.01.1907)
- Baron Semyon Korf (20.01.1907—1914)
- Piotr Stremoukhov (1914—1916)
References and notes
- ^ Language Statistics of 1897 (in Russian)
- ^ Languages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000
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