Piotrków Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire, established in 1867 by splitting some areas of Radom and Warsaw Governorates. Its capital was in Petrokov (Piotrków Trybunalski).
History It was created in 1867, split off from parts of Radom and Warsaw Governorates. It consisted of the uzeyds of Będzin, Częstochowa, Radomsko and Łódź.
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 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 OtherLanguages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000 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 +
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