Lublin Governorate

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Lublin Governorate (Polish: Gubernia lubelska, Russian: Люблинская губерния) was an administrative unit (governorate) of the Congress Poland.

[edit] History

It was created in 1837 from the Lublin Voivodship, and had the same borders and capital (Lublin) as the voivodship.

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.

Reform of 1844 merged the governorate with Podlasie Governorate, until the 1867 reform which reversed those changes (although Podlasie Governorate was renamed to Siedlce Governorate). In 1912 some of the territories of the governorate were split off into the newly created Chełm Governorate.

[edit] Population

The district was mostly inhabited by Catholic ethnic Poles. Officially, a little under 200,000 people were classified as Little Russians, 155,000 as Jews and 24,000 as Germans.

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