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Lublin Governorate

1837–1915 unit of Poland

Lublin Governorate

Люблинская губерния
Gubernia lubelska

Governorate of the Russian Empire

1837–1915

Coat of arms

Location within the Russian Empire

Capital

Lyublin

Area

•

16,831.3 km² (6,498.6 sq mi)

Population

• 1897^[1]

1,160,662

History

• Established

1837

• Disestablished

1915

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Lublin Voivodeship

1912: Kholm Governorate
1915: Government General of Warsaw

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

History

The Lublin Governorate was created in 1837 from the Lublin Voivodeship, and had the same borders and capital (Lublin) as the voivodeship.

Its lower levels of administration were also mostly unchanged, although renamed from obwóds to powiats. There were ten of those units named after their capital cities: Biłgorajski, Chełmski, Hrubieszowski, Janowski, Krasnystawski, Lubartowski, Lubelski, Puławski (from 1842: nowoaleksandryjski), Tomaszowski and Zamojski.

The Reform of 1844 merged the governorate with Podlasie Governorate, until the 1867 reform which reversed those changes (although Podlasie Governorate was renamed Siedlce Governorate). In 1912 some of the territories of the governorate were split off into the newly created Kholm Governorate.

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	729 529	62.85	360 700	368 829
Ukrainian	196 476	16.92	99 665	96 811
Yiddish	155 398	13.38	74 985	80 413
Russian	47 912	4.12	36 888	11 024
German	25 972	2.23	12 901	13 071
Estonian	2 197	0.18	2 197	0
Other^[3]	3 052	0.26	2 526	526
Persons that didn't name their native language	126	>0.01	99	27
Total	1 160 662	100	589 961	570 701

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