Privislinsky Krai

Privislyansky Krai ( _ru. Привислянский Край) was the name applied for the lands of the Kingdom of Poland ("Congress Poland"). After the reform of 1867 it consisted of 10 "Governorates": Сувалкская (Suvalskaya), Ломжинская (Lomzhinskaya), Плоцкая (Plotskaya), Седлецкая (Sedletskaya) and Люблинская (Lublinskaya) by the right side of the Vistula River, and the remaining 5 by the left side: Калишская (Kalishskaya), Варшавская (Varshavskaya), Петроковская (Petrokovskaya), Радомская (Radomskaya) and Келецкая (Keletskaya).

The 1867 reform, initiated after the failure of the January Uprising, was designed to tie the Congress Kingdom more tightly to the administration structure of the Russian Empire. It dividied larger governorates into smaller ones and introduced a new lower level entity, gminas.

The territory was a "namestnichestvo" until 1875 and later Governorate General - see Namestnik of the Kingdom of Poland.

History

1893

A minor reform of 1893 transferred some territory from the Plotsk and Lomzha Governorates to Warsaw Governorate.

1912

The 1912 reform created a new governorate - Kholm Governorate - from parts of the Sedlets and Lublin Governorates. However this was split off from the Vistulan Country and made part of the Southwestern Krai of the Russian Empire.

1915

During World War I, in 1915 the area was occupied by the Central Powers who proposed the Kingdom of Poland (1916–1918).

1917

In 1917 Russia ceded all Polish territories it had possessed to the German Empire and Austria-Hungary.

Administrative Divisions