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Kholm Governorate (pink)
Kholm Governorate or Chełm Governorate (Russian: Холмская Губерния Kholmskaya Guberniya, Polish: gubernia chełmska) was an administrative unit (governorate) of the Russian Empire. Its capital was in Chełm (Russian and Ukrainian: Холм Kholm).
It was created from eastern parts of Siedlce Governorate and Lublin Governorate in 1912. It was separated from the Privislinsky Krai and joined to Kiev General Governorate as "core Russian territory", as a precaution in case Privislinsky Krai territories should be taken from the Russian Empire in an upcoming war. Another reason for this administrative change was to facilitate Russification and conversion of the non-Eastern Orthodox Christians.[1]
According to Russian statistical sources in 1914, while the area of the governorate was 10 460 km2, it was inhabited by approximately 912,000 inhabitants of whom about 50.1% were Ukrainians, 30.5% Poles, 15.8% Jews.[2]
References
- ^ Norman Davies, God's Playground: A History of Poland, Columbia University Press, 2005, ISBN 0231128193, Print, p.278
- ^ http://www.hist.msu.ru/Labs/UkrBel/sklarov.htm (in Russian)
External links
- (Russian) The legal document of the Russian Duma that proclaims the creation of the Kholm Governorate.
- Map of Kholm region
Western Krai Governorates of the Russian Empire 1795-1912Northwestern Krai Vilna Governorate • Kovno Governorate • Grodno Governorate • Minsk Governorate • Mogilev Governorate • Vitebsk GovernorateSouthwestern Krai Categories:- Governorates of Congress Poland
- Governorates of the Russian Empire
- States and territories established in 1912
- Polish history stubs
- Russian history stubs
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