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The Armenian Oblast or Armenian Province () was an oblast
Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic peoples countries and in some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"....
 (province) of the Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
 that existed from 1828 to 1840. It roughly corresponded to most of present-day central Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
, the Igdir Province
Igdir Province

Igdir is a Provinces of Turkey in eastern Turkey, located along the border with Armenia, Azerbaijan , and Iran. Its adjacent provinces are Kars Province to the northwest and Agri Province to the west and south....
 of present-day Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
, and present-day Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus, located partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Western Asia....
's Nakhchivan exclave. It was created out of the territories of the former Erivan
Erivan Khanate

The Khanate of Erevan or Co?ur Sa?d was an administrative territory of Safavids from the mid-17th century to 1828. Its covered an area of roughly 7,500 square miles and corresponded to most of present-day central Armenia, most of the Igdir Province of present-day Turkey, and the Sharur and Sadarak rayons of Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Auto...
 and Nakhichevan khanates, which were ceded to Russia by the Persian Empire
Persian Empire

The 'Persian Empire' was a series of successive Iranian or Persianization empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland, and beyond in Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
 under the Treaty of Turkmenchay
Treaty of Turkmenchay

The Treaty of Turkmenchay was a treaty negotiated in Turkmenchay by which the Persian Empire, more commonly known today as Iran, recognized Imperial Russia suzerainty over the Erivan khanate, Nakhchivan khanate and the remainder of the Talysh Khanate, establishing the Aras River as the common boundary between both empires, after its defeat...
 after the Russo-Persian War of 1826-1828.






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The Armenian Oblast or Armenian Province () was an oblast
Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic peoples countries and in some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"....
 (province) of the Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
 that existed from 1828 to 1840. It roughly corresponded to most of present-day central Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
, the Igdir Province
Igdir Province

Igdir is a Provinces of Turkey in eastern Turkey, located along the border with Armenia, Azerbaijan , and Iran. Its adjacent provinces are Kars Province to the northwest and Agri Province to the west and south....
 of present-day Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
, and present-day Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus, located partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Western Asia....
's Nakhchivan exclave. It was created out of the territories of the former Erivan
Erivan Khanate

The Khanate of Erevan or Co?ur Sa?d was an administrative territory of Safavids from the mid-17th century to 1828. Its covered an area of roughly 7,500 square miles and corresponded to most of present-day central Armenia, most of the Igdir Province of present-day Turkey, and the Sharur and Sadarak rayons of Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Auto...
 and Nakhichevan khanates, which were ceded to Russia by the Persian Empire
Persian Empire

The 'Persian Empire' was a series of successive Iranian or Persianization empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland, and beyond in Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
 under the Treaty of Turkmenchay
Treaty of Turkmenchay

The Treaty of Turkmenchay was a treaty negotiated in Turkmenchay by which the Persian Empire, more commonly known today as Iran, recognized Imperial Russia suzerainty over the Erivan khanate, Nakhchivan khanate and the remainder of the Talysh Khanate, establishing the Aras River as the common boundary between both empires, after its defeat...
 after the Russo-Persian War of 1826-1828. Ivan Paskevich
Ivan Paskevich

Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich was a Ukraine-born military leader in the Russian service. For his victories, he was made Count of Erivan in 1828 and Namestnik of Kingdom of Poland in 1831....
, the Ukrainian
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
-born military leader, was made count
Count

A count is a nobleman in European countries; The word count comes from French language comte, itself from Latin comes?in its Accusative case comitem?meaning "companion", and later "companion of the emperor, delegate of the emperor"....
 of the oblast in the year of its creation.

In 1840 the Oblast was dissolved and its territory incorporated into a larger new province, the Georgia-Imeretia Governorate ("Gruziia-Imeretiia"). This new division did not last long – in 1845 a vast new territory called the Caucasian Territory ("Kavkazskii Krai") or Caucasian Viceregency ("Kavkazskoe Namestnichestvo") was created, in which the former Armenian Oblast formed part of a subdivision named the Tiflis Governorate
Tiflis Governorate

Tiflis Governorate was one of the guberniyas of the Russian Empire with its centre in Tiflis . In 1897 it constituted 44,607 sq. kilometres in area and had a population of 1,051,032 inhabitants....
. In 1849 the Erivan Governorate
Erivan Governorate

Erivan Governorate was one of the guberniyas of the Russian Empire, with its centre in Erivan . Its area was 27,830 sq. kilometres. It roughly corresponded to what is now most of central Armenia, the Igdir Province of Turkey, and Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan exclave....
 was established, separate from the Tiflis Governorate. It included the territory of the former Yerevan and Nakhchivan khanates.

Immediately prior to their annexation by Russia, the population of the Yerevan and Nakhichevan khanates included about 25,500 Armenians. Between 1828 and 1836, approximately 57,000 Christians (overwhelmingly Armenians) migrated into the Armenian oblast from Persia and Turkey. However, in 1832, four years after its official annexation by Russia, the Muslim population (primarily Tatars) represented 82,000, or fully half of the area's 164,500 residents.By 1832 Muslims in what had been the Erivan khanate were outnumbered by Armenians. By the beginning of the 20th century about 300,000 Muslims, 37.5% of the total population, lived in Russia's Erivan Governorate
Erivan Governorate

Erivan Governorate was one of the guberniyas of the Russian Empire, with its centre in Erivan . Its area was 27,830 sq. kilometres. It roughly corresponded to what is now most of central Armenia, the Igdir Province of Turkey, and Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan exclave....
 

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  • Russian Armenia
    Russian Armenia

    Russian Armenia is the period of Armenia history under Russian rule beginning from 1829, when Eastern Armenia became part of the Russia to the declaration of the Democratic Republic of Armenia in 1918....
  • Erivan Governorate
    Erivan Governorate

    Erivan Governorate was one of the guberniyas of the Russian Empire, with its centre in Erivan . Its area was 27,830 sq. kilometres. It roughly corresponded to what is now most of central Armenia, the Igdir Province of Turkey, and Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan exclave....
  • History of the administrative division of Russia
    History of the administrative division of Russia

    This article covers the history of the administrative division of Russia from 1708 to 1744....