Bydgoszcz Department (Polish: Departament bydgoski) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Polish

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 Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with mor ...

. 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 {{KujawskoPomorskie-geo-stub