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Erivan Governorate (
Old Russian:
Эриванская губернія) was one of the
guberniyas of the
Russian Empire, with its centre in
Erivan (present-day
Yerevan). Its area was 27,830 sq. kilometres. It roughly corresponded to what is now most of central
Armenia, the
Iğdır Province of
Turkey, and
Azerbaijan's
Nakhichevan exclave.
In
1828, the khanates of
Erivan and the
Nakhchivan became part of the Russian Empire in accordance with the
Treaty of Turkmenchay. They were included into a single administrative unit named the
Armenian oblast. In
1850 the oblast was reorganized into a governorate, and by
1872 it consisted of 7
uyezds. In
1918 most of Erivan Governorate became part of the
Democratic Republic of Armenia.
Administrative division
Erivan Governorate consisted of the following uyezds:
Demographics
According to the Russian census of
1897, the Erivan Governorate had 829,556 inhabitants. and the majority of the governorate's population was
Armenian (56%) or
Azeri Tartar (37.5%). The Azeri Tartars were in a majority in the Erivan, Nakhichevan, Sharur-Daralagyoz, and Surmali districts; the other three uyezds were predominantly Armenian. Other ethnic minorities included
Kurds (5.9%),
Russians (2.1%), as well as smaller numbers of Greeks, Georgians, Jews and Gypsies.
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