Łomża Department

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
Capital	Łomża
History
• Established	1807
• Disestablished	1813
Preceded by Succeeded by Białystok Department Augustów Voivodeship
Today part of	Poland 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

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

• Dokumenty urzędowe dotyczące Łomży w okresie Księstwa Warszawskiego z 17 XII 1810 roku, 1 VI 1812 roku, 27 VII 1812 roku, Skarby Dziedzictwa Narodowego, Polska.pl

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