Warsaw Governorate ( pl, Gubernia warszawska; russian: Варшавская губерния) was an administrative unit (

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) of

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. It was created in 1844 from the

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and

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s, and had the capital in

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. In 1867 territories of the Warsaw Governorate were divided into three smaller governorates: a smaller Warsaw Governorate,

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and the recreated

. A small reform in 1893 increased the Warsaw Governorate's size with territories split from

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and

Łomża Łomża (), in English known as Lomza, is a city in north-eastern Poland, approximately 150 kilometers (90 miles) to the north-east of Warsaw and west of Białystok. It is situated alongside the Narew river as part of the Podlaskie Voivodeship si ...

governorates.

Language

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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.

Governors

* Evgeni Rozhnov (1863-24.10.1866) *

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Nikolai Medem (24.10.1866—01.01.1892) * Yuliy Andreev (16.01.1892—27.02.1897) * Dmitri Martynov (03.03.1897—20.01.1907) *

Semyon Korf (20.01.1907—1914) * Piotr Stremoukhov (1914—1916)

References and notes

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