Bydgoszcz Department (Polish: Departament bydgoski) was a unit of administrative division and local government in
Polish
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Duchy of Warsaw
The Duchy of Warsaw ( pl, Księstwo Warszawskie, french: Duché de Varsovie, german: Herzogtum Warschau), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and Napoleonic Poland, was a French client state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, during ...
in years 1806–1815.
Its capital city was
Bydgoszcz.
Following the Decree of 19 December 1807,
[See the Polish Wikipedia Polish article: :pl:Podział administracyjny Księstwa Warszawskiego] the area was further divided onto 10 counties (
powiat
A ''powiat'' (pronounced ; Polish plural: ''powiaty'') is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture ( LAU-1, formerly NUTS-4) in other countries. The term "''powiat ...
s).
Sources
*Jacek Arkadiusz Goclon, ''Polska na królu pruskim zdobyta'', Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 2002.
*Mieczysław Bandurka, ''Zmiany administracyjne i terytorialne ziem województwa łódzkiego w XIX i XX wieku'', NDAP, UW w Łodzi, AP w Łodzi, Łódź 1995.
References
Departments of the Duchy of Warsaw
History of Bydgoszcz
States and territories established in 1806
States and territories disestablished in 1815
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