Piotrków Governorate

1867–1915 unit of Poland

Петроковская губерния
Gubernia piotrkowska

Governorate of Congress Poland

1867–1915

Coat of arms

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

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Warsaw Governorate

Government General of Warsaw

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 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

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- Russian: Петроковская губерния, romanized: Petrokovskaya guberniya
- Polish: Gubernia piotrkowska

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