Kholm Governorate
Kholm Governorate may refer to: * Kholm Governorate (Russian Empire) Kholm Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Kholm (Chełm). It was created from the eastern parts of Siedlce Governorate and Lublin Governorate in 1912. It was separated fro ..., a region of the Russian Empire in 1912–1915, centered in Kholm (today Chełm in Poland) * Kholm Governorate (Ukraine), a region of the Ukrainian State in 1918–1919, centered in Brest-Litovsk {{disambiguation ...
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Kholm Governorate (Russian Empire)
Kholm Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Kholm (Chełm). It was created from the eastern parts of Siedlce Governorate and Lublin Governorate in 1912. It was separated from Privislinsky Krai and joined to Kiev General Governorate as "core Russian territory", as a precaution in case the territories of Privislinsky Krai should be taken from the Russian Empire in an upcoming war. Another reason for this administrative change was to facilitate Russification and Conversion of Chelm Eparchy, conversion of the non-Eastern Orthodox Christians to Orthodoxy. Kholm Governorate was officially excluded from Privislinsky Krai by Tsar's decree of 4 April 1915. According to Russian statistical sources for 1914, while the area of the governorate was , it was inhabited by 896,316 inhabitants of whom 404,633 (45.1%) were Roman Catholics, 327,322 (36.5%) Orthodox Christians, 29,123 Protestants and 135,238 Jews. Russian data w ...
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