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Kovno Governorate[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Kovno (Kaunas). It was formed on 18 December 1842 by Tsar Nicholas I from the western part of Vilna Governorate, and the order was carried out on 1 July 1843. It was part of the Vilna Governorate-General and Northwestern Krai.
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The Kovna gubernia (also known as Kaunas) was formed 18 December 1842 by Tsar Nicholas I from seven western uyezdi (districts) of the Vilna gubernia. The Kovna gubernia consisted of those seven uyezdi. Currently, most of the former Kovna gubernia is now located in Lithuania with a small part in Latvia and Belarus.
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Aug 31, 2015 · Vilna Gubernia: The area that was Vilna Gubernia (Виленская губерния) is today the south-eastern part of modern Lithuania, and in the north-western part of Belarus. Between the two world wars (1919-1939), most of Vilna Gubernia was in Poland (Wilno province). The inter-war Polish names of the towns are in italics.
Nov 21, 2023 · Kovna typically refers to the Kovna Gubernia region which was mostly located in what is now Lithuania. Think of it as similar to a state in the USA. There were a number of administrative districts contained within Kovna including: Kaunas Panevezys Raseniai Siauliai Telsiai Ukmerge Zarasai Each district contained smaller towns. Many of my wife's ...
A December 18, 1842 Royal Edict reorganized the northwestern Russian Empire and created the Kovno Guberniya. That reorganization effected the Vilna and Grodno gubernii. The northern uezds of Vilna Guberniya (Novoaleksandrovsk, Rassein, Telshi, Shavli, Upita, Vilkomir, and part of Kovno) became a new guberniya called Kovno.
It was here in this suburban district known to the Jews as Slobodka that on German orders, the Kovno (as Kaunas was once called) Ghetto was sealed on August 15, 1941 with 29,000 impounded people. The area had been a Jewish village for four hundred years. Jewish history runs particularly deep in Lithuania. Before the war, some 200 communities ...
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