Augustów Governorate Explained

Native Name:Августовская губерния
Conventional Long Name:Augustów Governorate
Common Name:Augustów
Subdivision:Governorate
Nation:Congress Poland
Year Start:1837
Year End:1867
P1:Augustów Voivodeship
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S1:Łomża Governorate
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S2:Suwałki Governorate
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Capital:Suwałki
Today:Poland
Lithuania
Belarus¹
Footnotes:¹ Sopoćkinie area

Augustów Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire.

It was created in 1837 from the Augustów Voivodship, and had the same borders and capital (Suwałki) as the voivodship. In 1867 territories of the Augustów Governorate and the Płock Governorate were divided into a smaller Płock Governorate, Suwałki Governorate (consisting mostly of the Augustów Governorate territories) and recreated Łomża Governorate.

Administrative divisions

It was divided into 7 powiats:

After 1918, the southern one-third of the governorate was included in Poland, the rest falling to Lithuania.

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