Kielce Governorate

1867–1915 unit of Poland

Kielce Governorate

Келецкая губерния
Gubernia kielecka

Governorate of Congress Poland

1867–1915

Coat of arms

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

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Radom Governorate

Government General of Warsaw

Kielce Governorate^[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire.

History

It 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

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

^ "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