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Łomża Department

Coordinates: 53°11′00″N 22°05′00″E / 53.183333°N 22.083333°E / 53.183333; 22.083333
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Łomża Department
Departament Łomzyński
Department of the Duchy of Warsaw
1807–1813

Administrative division of the Duchy of Warsaw, 1810–1815. Łomża Department is brown in the north-east
CapitalŁomża
History 
• Established
1807
• Disestablished
1813
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Białystok Department
Augustów Voivodeship
Today part ofPoland
Lithuania
Belarus¹
¹ Sopoćkinie area

Łomża Department (Polish: Departament Łomzyński) was an administrative division and local government in the Polish Duchy of Warsaw in the years 1807–15. The department comprised 10 counties and had its capital at Łomża.

From January to July 1807 the department was known as the Białystok Department (Departament Białostocki), with its capital at Białystok. However, after the Treaties of Tilsit, the Russian Empire agreed to the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw; but in exchange the department ceded four counties: Białostocki, Bielski, Sokólski, and Drohicki. Thus the department's capital had to be moved, and its name was accordingly changed to that of the new capital, Łomża.

After 1815 most of the Łomża Department's territory became part of Augustów Province. In 1867 it was reconstituted as the Łomża Governorate.

Administrative divisions

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It was divided into 7 counties:

  • Biebrza County (seat in Szczuczyn)
  • Dąbrowa County (seat in Lipsk, later in Augustów)
  • Kalvarija County
  • Łomża County
  • Marijampolė County
  • Tykocin County
  • Wigry-Sejny County (seat in Sejny)

References

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53°11′00″N 22°05′00″E / 53.183333°N 22.083333°E / 53.183333; 22.083333