Kielce Governorate[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire.
| Kielce Governorate Келецкая губерния Gubernia kielecka | |||||||||
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| Governorate of Congress Poland | |||||||||
| 1867–1915 | |||||||||
 Location in the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Capital | Keltsy | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• | 10,093 km2 (3,897 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1897[1] | 761,995 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1867 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1915 | ||||||||
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History
editIt was created in 1841 from the Kraków Governorate, both with capital in Kelets (Кѣльцы). It was merged into Radom Governorate during the 1844 reorganisation that reduced the number of governorates to just five. In 1866/67 it was recreated in the further reforms that brought the administrative structure of Poland closer to that of the Russian Empire.
It consisted of 7 powiats: Jędrzejów, Kielce, Miechów, Olkusz, Pińczów, Stopnica and Włoszczowa.
Language
editКелецкая губерния
- 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 | 666 772 | 87.5 | 323 858 | 342 914 |
| Yiddish | 83 017 | 10.89 | 40 528 | 42 489 |
| Russian | 7 983 | 1.04 | 6 506 | 1 477 |
| German | 2 428 | 0.31 | 1 224 | 1 204 |
| Ukrainian | 1 088 | 0.16 | 1 015 | 73 |
| Other[3] | 706 | >0.1 | 568 | 138 |
| Persons that didn't name their native language |
1 | >0.01 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 761 995 | 100 | 373 700 | 388 295 |
References and notes
edit- ^ "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
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- Russian: Келецкая губерния, pre-1918: Кѣлецкая губернія, romanized: Keletskaya guberniya
- Polish: Gubernia kielecka