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Podlasie Governorate

Governorate of Congress Poland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 25, 2024
Entity authorityQ2277694 ↗
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Podlasie Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire.

It was created in 1837 from the Podlasie Voivodeship with its capital in Siedlce. In 1844 it was merged into a larger Lublin Governorate; in 1867 it was recreated as Siedlce Governorate.

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“Podlasie Governorate” enters the record as governorate of Congress Poland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Podlasie, Governorate and Congress can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1837, 1844, 1867—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1837-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Podlasie, Governorate and Congress.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 25, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2277694. VIAF identifies the subject as 5928156133215258430001. Authority coordinates are 52.150, 22.267. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1837, 1844 and 1867.

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This entry incorporates text from “Podlasie Governorate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.