Siedlce Governorate

Siedlce Governorate
Седлецкая губерния
Gubernia siedlecka
Siedlce Governorate Седлецкая губерния; Gubernia siedlecka
Governorate of Congress Poland
1867–1912
	Coat of arms
	; Location in the Russian Empire
Capital	Sedlets
Area
•	14,317.7 km2 (5,528.1 sq mi)
Population
• 1897	772,146
History
• Established	1867
• Disestablished	1912
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	1867:; Lublin Governorate
1912:; Kholm Governorate
Lublin Governorate

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

History

It was created in 1867 from the division of the Lublin Governorate. It was in fact a recreation of the older Podlasie Governorate, but now renamed to Siedlce Governorate. Siedlce Governorate was abolished in 1912 and its territory was divided between Lublin Governorate, Łomża Governorate and the newly created Kholm Governorate.

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	510 621	66.13	253 571	257 050
Yiddish	120 152	15.56	57 821	62 331
Ukrainian	107 785	13.95	54 219	53 566
Russian	19 613	2.54	14 856	4 757
German	11 645	1.5	5 911	5 734
Other^[3]	2 286	0.29	2 067	219
Persons that didn't name their native language	44	>0.01	21	23
Total	772 146	100	388 466	383 680

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- Russian: Седлецкая губерния, pre-1918: Сѣдлецкая губернія, romanized: Sedletskaya guberniya
- Polish: Gubernia siedlecka

^ "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