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Kalisz Governorate[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire.
| Kalisz Governorate Калишская губерния Gubernia kaliska | |||||||||
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| Governorate of Congress Poland | |||||||||
| 1867–1915 | |||||||||
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.svg) Location in the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Capital | Kalish | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• | 11,336.6 km2 (4,377.1 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1897[1] | 840,597 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1867 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1915 | ||||||||
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It was created in 1837 from the Kalisz Voivodeship, and had the same borders and centre (Kalisz) as the voivodeship.
The Reform of 1844 merged the governorate into the larger Warsaw Governorate, until the 1867 reform which reversed those changes and recreated the Kalisz Governorate.
| Language | Total | Percentage | Males | Females |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polish | 705 400 | 83.91% | 345 348 | 360 052 |
| Yiddish | 64 193 | 7.63% | 30 941 | 33 252 |
| German | 61 482 | 7.31% | 30 289 | 31 193 |
| Russian | 7 451 | 0.88% | 5 985 | 1 466 |
| Ukrainian | 1 429 | 0.16% | 1 391 | 38 |
| Other[3] | 618 | <0.1% | 521 | 97 |
| No native language named | 22 | <0.01% | 11 | 11 |
| Total | 840 597 | 100% | 414 488 | 426 109 |
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