Kalisz Governorate

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

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 km^2 (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

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

1. • Russian: Калишская губерния, romanized: Kalishskaya guberniya
   • Polish: Gubernia kaliska

References

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 2011-06-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
3. 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

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