Warsaw Governorate

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Warsaw Governorate
Варшавская губерния
Gubernia warszawska
Governorate of Russian Empire
1844–1915
Warsaw in Russian Empire (1914).svg
Location within the Russian Empire
CapitalVarshava
Area 
• 
17,479.7 km2 (6,748.9 sq mi)
Population 
• 1897[1]
1,983,689
History
History 
• Established
1844
• Disestablished
1915
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Masovian Voivodeship
Government General of Warsaw
Arm (1880)

Warsaw Governorate (Polish: Gubernia warszawska; Russian: Варшавская губерния) was an administrative unit (governorate) of 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

≥ 1906
  • By the Imperial census of 1897.[2] In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.

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

  1. ^ "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).
  2. ^ Language Statistics of 1897 (in Russian)
  3. ^ Languages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000

Coordinates: 52°14′00″N 21°01′00″E / 52.233333°N 21.016667°E / 52.233333; 21.016667