Piotrków Governorate
| Piotrków Governorate Петроковская губерния Gubernia piotrkowska | |||||||||
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| Governorate of Congress Poland | |||||||||
| 1867–1915 | |||||||||
Coat of arms
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Location in 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[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire, established in 1867 by splitting some areas of Radom and Warsaw Governorates. Its capital was in Petrokov (Piotrków Trybunalski).
History
It was created in 1867, split off from parts of Radom and Warsaw Governorates. It consisted of the 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 |
Notes
References
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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