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, established in 1867 by splitting some areas of the

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and Warsaw Governorates. Its capital was in Petrokov ( rus, Петроко́в) in modern day Piotrków Trybunalski.

History

It was created in 1867, split off from parts of

and

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s. It consisted of uzeyds of

Będzin Będzin (; also ''Bendzin'' in English; german: Bendzin; yi, בענדין, Bendin) is a city in the Dąbrowa Basin, in southern Poland. It lies in the Silesian Highlands, on the Czarna Przemsza River (a tributary of the Vistula). Even though pa ...

, Częstochowa,

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and

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*By the Imperial census of 1897.Language Statistics of 1897
In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.

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