Siedlce Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire.
History It was created in 1867 from the division of the Lublin Governorate. It was in fact a recreation of the older Podlasie Governorate, but now renamed to Siedlce Governorate. Siedlce Governorate was abolished in 1912 and its territory was divided between Lublin Governorate, Łomża Governorate and 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 510 621 66.13 253 571 257 050 Yiddish 120 152 15.56 57 821 62 331 Ukrainian 107 785 13.95 54 219 53 566 Russian 19 613 2.54 14 856 4 757 German 11 645 1.5 5 911 5 734 OtherLanguages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000 2 286 0.29 2 067 219 Persons that didn't name their native language 44 >0.01 21 23 Total 772 146 100 388 466 383 680 +
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See also
Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland