Grodno Governorate
| Grodno Governorate Russian: Гро́дненская губе́рнiя |
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| Capital | Grodno | ||||
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| • | Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | 1795 | |||
| • | World War I | 1915 | |||
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 Belarus Poland Lithuania
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The Grodno Governorate, (Russian: Гро́дненская губе́рнiя, Grodnenskaya guberniya, Polish: Gubernia grodzieńska, Belarusian: Гродзенская губерня, Hrodzenskaya gubernya, Lithuanian: Gardino gubernija) was a governorate (guberniya) of the Russian Empire.
Grodno, a western province or governorate of the former Russian Empire, currently located in Belarus, situated between about 52° to 54° N latitude and 21° to 24° E longitude, and bounded N by Vilna E by Minsk S by Volhynia and W by the former kingdom of Poland 14,961 square miles (38,750 km2) The province was a wide plain in parts very swampy and covered with large pine. Of these that of Bieloviecza in the district of comprising a circuit of over 100 miles (160 km) deserves notice. There bisons were preserved. The navigable rivers are Niemen, Bug, Narev, and Bobra. The most important of those being the Bug. The soil is chiefly alluvial intermixed with sand waws, which is favorable for agriculture anil rearing of cattle and bees. The atmosphere is damp misty and the climate in winter is cold. Large of rye, barley, oats, hops, hemp and flax were raised but amount of fruit and vegetables grown was small. The products were insignificant. The manufactures of woollen cloths, hats, leather, paper and spirits. There also a good export trade in grain, wool, cattle. Some forty fairs were held annually in the province.
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