Kalisz Governorate

1867–1915 unit of Poland

Kalisz Governorate

Калишская губерния
Gubernia kaliska

Governorate of Congress Poland

1867–1915

Coat of arms

Location in the Russian Empire

Capital

Kalish

Area

•

11,336.6 km² (4,377.1 sq mi)

Population

• 1897^[1]

840,597

History

• Established

1867

• Disestablished

1915

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Warsaw Governorate

Government General of Warsaw

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

History

It was created in 1837 from the Kalisz Voivodeship, and had the same borders and centre (Kalisz) as the voivodeship.

The Reform of 1844 merged the governorate into the larger Warsaw Governorate, until the 1867 reform which reversed those changes and recreated the Kalisz Governorate.

Language

Numbers of speakers according to the Imperial census of 1897.^[2] In **bold** are languages spoken by more people than the state language.
Language	Total	Percentage	Males	Females
Polish	705 400	83.91%	345 348	360 052
Yiddish	64 193	7.63%	30 941	33 252
German	61 482	7.31%	30 289	31 193
Russian	7 451	0.88%	5 985	1 466
Ukrainian	1 429	0.16%	1 391	38
Other^[3]	618	<0.1%	521	97
No native language named	22	<0.01%	11	11
Total	840 597	100%	414 488	426 109

Notes

^
- Russian: Калишская губерния, romanized: Kalishskaya guberniya
- Polish: Gubernia kaliska

References

^ "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 Archived 2011-06-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
^ Languages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000

External links

(in Polish) Gubernia kaliska w Słowniku geograficznym Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom III (Haag — Kępy) z 1882 r.
Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland