Kielce Governorate

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 km^2 (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.

Coat of arms, 1880 illustration

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

Келецкая 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

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

1. • Russian: Келецкая губерния, pre-1918: Кѣлецкая губернія, romanized: Keletskaya guberniya
   • Polish: Gubernia kielecka

See also

• Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland

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