Armenian Oblast

Coordinates: 41°N 44°E / 41°N 44°E / 41; 44

Armenian Oblast (English) Армянская область (Modern Russian) Армянская область (Pre-1918 Russian)

Established	1828
Abolished	1840
Political status Region	Oblast Caucasus
Area
Area - Rank	27,830 verst² n/a
Population (1832 census)
Population - Rank - Density - Urban - Rural	164,500 inhabitants n/a 5.9 inhab. / verst² n/a n/a
Government
First Head Last Head	n/a n/a

History of Armenia

Etymology Timeline Traditional Urheimat
Prehistory Stone & Copper Age Shulaveri-Shomu culture c.6500–3400 BCE Areni-1 Cave Complex Kura–Araxes culture c.3400–2000 BCE Legend of Hayk (?) 2492 BCE Bronze & Iron Age Hayasa-Azzi c.1500–1290 BCE Arme-Shupria c.1300s–1190 BCE Ararat/Urartu Nairi Tribes 1114–860 BCE Kingdom of Van 860–590 BCE Scythian & Mede Invasions 6th Century BCE
Antiquity Achaemenid Period Satrapy of Armina 549–331 BCE Orontid Dynasty Ancient Armenia Kingdom of Armenia 321 BCE–428 CE Artaxiad dynasty 189 BCE–12 CE Empire 84–34 BCE Arsacid dynasty 52–428 CE Roman–Parthian War 58–63 CE Roman Province of Armenia 114–118 CE Christianization 301 CE Armenia Minor 331–72 BCE Kingdom of Sophene c.200–94 BCE Kingdom of Commagene 163 BCE–72 CE Marzpanate period Byzantine Armenia 387–536 Persian Armenia 428–646 Mamikonian dynasty Battle of Avarayr 451
Middle Ages Arabic Period Emirate of Armenia 653–884 Hamamshen 700s–1300s Amatuni Dynasty Medieval Armenia Bagratid Armenia 884–1045 Bagratid dynasty 861–1118 Kingdom of Vaspurakan 908–1021 Artsruni dynasty Sajid dynasty 889–929 Sallarid dynasty 919–1062 Kingdom of Tashir-Dzoraget 979–1118 Kingdom of Artsakh 1000–1261 House of Hasan-Jalalyan Battle of Manzikert 1071 Cilician & Turco-Mongol Period Seljuq rule 1071–1201 Georgian union 1201–1236 Ilkhanid rule 1236–1335 Principality of Khachen 1261–1750 Turkmen rule 1335–1508 Kingdom of Cilicia 1198–1375 Rubenid dynasty 1000–1261 Hethumid dynasty 1226–1373 Lusignan dynasty 1341–1375
Early modern age Perso-Ottoman Period Safavid & Qajar rule 1502–1828 Five Melikdoms Nakhichevan deportation 1606 Ceding of Eastern Armenia 1828 Ottoman rule 1548–1915 Six Vilayets 1878 Hamidian massacres 1895–1896 Armenian Genocide 1909–1918 Russian period Russian rule 1828–1918 Armenian Oblast 1828–1840 Western Armenia 1915–1918 National Liberation Movement Armenakan 1885 S.D. Hunchakian Party 1887 ARF (Dashnaktsutyun) 1890 Caucasus Campaign 1914–1918 Battle of Sardarapat 1918 Battle of Karakilisa 1918 Modern Armenia First Republic of Armenia 1918–1920 Treaty of Batum 1918 War with Azerbaijan 1918–1920 War with Georgia 1918 Treaty of Sèvres 1920 Wilsonian Armenia 1920 War with Turkey 1920 Treaty of Alexandropol 1920
Modern age Soviet Period Armenian S.S.R. 1920–1991 February Uprising 1921 Republic of Mountainous Armenia 1921 Treaty of Moscow 1921 Treaty of Kars 1921 Territorial claims against Turkey 1945–1953 Independence Armenian diaspora Hidden Armenians Republic of Armenia since 1991 Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War 1989–1994
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The Armenian Oblast or Armenian Province (Armenian: Հայկական մարզ, Russian: Армянская область) was an oblast (province) of the Russian Empire that existed from 1828 to 1840. It roughly corresponded to most of present-day central Armenia, the Igdir Province of present-day Turkey, and present-day Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, an exclave of Azerbaijan. It was created out of the territories of the former Erivan and Nakhichevan khanates, which were ceded to Russia by the Persian Empire under the Treaty of Turkmenchay after the Russo-Persian War of 1826-1828. Ivan Paskevich, the Ukrainian-born military leader, was made count of the oblast in the year of its creation.

Demography and background

The Russian authorities allowed and encouraged Armenians living in Turkish and Persian territory to migrate into Russian territory - about 49,000 subsequently settled in the Armenian Oblast. Armenian captives who were moved and lived in Iran since 1804 or even as far back as 1795 were permitted to return,^[1] which permitted Armenians to regain plurality. These policies contrasted with others imposed by the Russians, such as their attempt to replace the Catholicos at Echmiadzin, the offer to resettle Ganjevi Armenians in Georgia, or the removal of 250 Armenian families from Karabagh by a Russian detachment shortly after the fall of Ganjeh..^[2] Muslims, referred to as Tatars, constituted the majority of the oblast's population, while Armenians formed the largest minority. It also had significant Georgian and Kurdish minorities.

Aftermath

In 1840 the Oblast was dissolved and its territory incorporated into a larger new province, the Georgia-Imeretia Governorate ("Gruzia-Imeretia"). This new division did not last long – in 1844 the Caucasus Viceroyalty was re-established, in which the former Armenian Oblast formed part of a subdivision named the Tiflis Governorate. In 1849 the Erivan Governorate was established, separate from the Tiflis Governorate. It included the territory of the former Yerevan and Nakhchivan khanates.^[3]

References

↑ The Cambridge History of Iran by William Bayne Fisher, Peter Avery, Ilya Gershevitch, Gavin Hambly, Charles Melville, Cambridge University Press, 1991 p. 339
↑ Russia & Iran 1780-1828 CB, by Muriel Atkin, University of Minnesota Press (1980) p. 85
↑ Hewsen, Robert H. Armenia: a Historical Atlas. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001, p173.

Subdivisions of the Russian Empire

Governorates (List)	Azov¹ Altai² Arkhangelsk Archangelgorod* Astrakhan Baku Belgorod Bessarabia Bratslav Byelorussia Caucasus Chernigov Black Sea Derbent Grodno Georgia-Imeretia Georgia Elisabethpol Erivan Finland Iziaslav Ingermanland Irkutsk (ru) Kazan Kaluga Kiev (1708) Kiev Kharkov Kherson Kholm Kovno Kolyvan Kostroma Kursk Kutaisi Lithuania Little Russia (1764) Little Russia (1796) Minsk Mogilev Moscow Nikolayev Nizhny Novgorod Novhorod-Siverskyi Novgorod Novorossiysk Olonets Orenburg Oryol Penza Perm Petrograd² Podolia Polotsk* Poltava Pskov Ryazan Samara Saint Petersburg Saratov Shemakha Siberia Simbirsk Sloboda Ukraine Slonim Smolensk Stavropol Taurida Tambov Tver Tiflis Tobolsk Tomsk Tula Ufa Vilna Vitebsk Vladimir Voznesensk Vologda Volhynian Voronezh Vyatka Vyborg Yaroslavl Yekaterinoslav Yeniseysk

Oblasts	Amur Armenian Batumi Belostok Bessarabia Don Voisko Dagestan Zabaikalskaya Imeretia Caucasus Kamchatka Kars Caspian Kwantung Kuban Orenburg Kirgiz Omsk Primorskaya Sakhalin Taurida Tarnopolsky Terek Turgay Ural Yakut

Oblasts of Stepnoy Krai	Akmolinsk Siberia Kirgiz Semipalatinsk Oblast

Oblasts of Turkestan Krai	Transcaspian Samarkand Semirechye Oblast Syr-Darya Oblast Turkestan Fergana

Governorates of Finland	Abo-Byorneborg Vaza Vyborg Kuopio Nyuland Sankt Mikhel Tavastgus Uleoborg

Governorates of Poland	Avgustov Varshava Kalish Kelets Krakov Lomzha Lyublin Mazovia Petrokov Plotsk Podlasie Radom Sandomir Sedlets Suvalki

Ostsee Governorates³	Kurlandia Livonia Reval Riga Estonia

Governorates of Galicia	Lvov Peremyshl Tarnopol Chernovtsy

Special Districts	Black Sea Okrug Sukhumi Okrug Zakatali Okrug Zeravshan Okrug

Dependent state formations	Bukeyev Horde Emirate of Bukhara Kokand Khanate Russian America Uriankhayskiy Krai Khanate of Khiva

¹ Italics indicates renamed or abolished governorates, oblasts, etc on 1 January 1914. ² An asterisk (*) indicates governorates formed or created with renaming after 1 January 1914. ³ Ostsee or Baltic general-governorship was abolished in 1876.

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Armenian Oblast

Demography and background

Aftermath

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References