Piotrków Governorate

Петроковская губерния

Piotrków Governorate (Russian: Петроковская губерния; Polish: Gubernia piotrkowska) was an administrative unit (governorate) of the Congress Poland. Its capital was in Piotrków Trybunalski.

History

It was created in 1867, split off from parts of Radom and Warsaw Governorates. It consisted of uzeyds of Będzin, Częstochowa, Radomsko and Łódź.

Language

• By the Imperial census of 1897.^[1] In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.

Language	Number	percentage (%)	males	females
Polish	1 011 928	72.07	497 412	514 516
Yiddish	213 562	15.21	104 914	108 648
German	148 765	10.59	72 445	76 320
Russian	19 232	1.36	14 938	4 294
Czech	4 987	0.35	2 563	2 424
Ukrainian	2 723	0.19	2 622	101
Other[2]	2 614	0.18	2 153	461
Persons that didn't name their native language	90	>0.01	49	41
Total	1 403 901	100	697 096	706 805

References and notes

1. Language Statistics of 1897 (Russian)
2. Languages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000

Further reading

• William Henry Beable (1919), "Governments or Provinces of the Former Russian Empire: Piotrkov", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook – via Open Library

Coordinates: 51°24′18″N 19°41′36″E / 51.405033°N 19.693289°E