Kalisz Governorate 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.
Administrative division (since 1867) The Kalisz Governorate was divided into 8 counties. List of counties: Kalisz County Koło County Konin County Łęczyca County Sieradz County Słupca County Turek County Wieluń County
Language
+Numbers of speakers according to the Imperial census of 1897.Language Statistics of 1897 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 OtherLanguages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000 618 <0.1% 521 97 No native language named 22 <0.01% 11 11 Total 840 597 100% 414 488 426 109
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References
External links 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