Lublin Governorate 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.Language Statistics of 1897 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 OtherLanguages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000 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 +
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