Radom Governorate was a governorate of the Congress Poland

Congress Poland

The Kingdom of Poland , informally known as Congress Poland , created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna, was a personal union of the Russian parcel of Poland with the Russian Empire...

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History

It was created in 1844 from the merger of the Sandomierz Governorate

Sandomierz Governorate

Sandomierz Governorate was an administrative unit of the Congress Poland.-History:It was created in 1837 from the Sandomierz Voivodship, and had the same borders and capital as the voivodship....

 with Kielce Governorate

Kielce Governorate

Kielce Governorate was an administrative unit of the Congress Poland.-History:It was created in 1841 from the Kraków Governorate, both with capital in Kielce...

. Its capital was in Radom

Radom

Radom is a city in central Poland with 223,397 inhabitants . It is located on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship , having previously been the capital of Radom Voivodeship ; 100 km south of Poland's capital, Warsaw.It is home to the biennial Radom Air Show, the largest and...

 (previously a capital of the Sandomierz Governorate).

It was divided into 8 powiat

Powiat

A powiat is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture in other countries. The term powiat is most often translated into English as "county", although other terms are also sometimes used...

s: kielecki, miechowski, olkuski, opatowski, opoczyński, radomski, sandomierski.

In 1866 the Kielce Governorate

Kielce Governorate

Kielce Governorate was an administrative unit of the Congress Poland.-History:It was created in 1841 from the Kraków Governorate, both with capital in Kielce...

 was once again made an independent entity, and thus split off from the Radom Governorate.

Language

• By the Imperial census of 1897. In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.

{| align="center" class="wikitable plainlinks TablePager"
|+
! |Language
! |Number
! |percentage (%)
! |males
! |females
|-----
|Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

|681 061
|83.57
|336 398
|344 663
|-----
|Yiddish

Yiddish language

Yiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages...

|112 123
|13.75
|54 524
|57 599
|-----
|Russian

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

|9 581
|1.17
|7 969
|1 612
|-----
|German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

|8 755
|1.07
|4 381
|4 374
|-----
|Ukrainian

Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....

|1 642
|0.2
|1 548
|94
|-----
|Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

|1 343
|0.42
|1 343
|0
|-----
|Other
|430
|>0.01
|430
|154
|-----
|Persons
that didn't name
their native language
|12
|>0.01
|10
|2
|-----
|Total
|814 947
|100
|406 449
|408 498
|+
|}