Erivan Governorate

Erivan Governorate Эриванская губерния
Governorate
Coat of arms
Administrative map of the Erivan Governorate
Country	Russian Empire
Viceroyalty	Caucasus
Established	1849
Abolished	1917
Capital	Erivan (present-day Yerevan)
Area
• Total	26,397.11 km2 (10,191.98 sq mi)
• Water	1,416.2 km2 (546.8 sq mi)
Highest elevation (Mount Ararat)	5,137 m (16,854 ft)
Population  (1916)
• Total	1,120,242
• Density	42/km2 (110/sq mi)
• Urban	11.83%
• Rural	88.17%

The Erivan Governorate^[a] was a province (guberniya) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, with its centеr in Erivan (present-day Yerevan). Its area was 27,830 sq. kilometеrs,^[1] roughly corresponding to what is now most of central Armenia, the Iğdır Province of Turkey, and the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan. At the end of the 19th century, it bordered the Tiflis Governorate to the north, the Elizavetpol Governorate to the east, the Kars Oblast to the west, and Persia and the Ottoman Empire to the south. Mount Ararat and the fertile Ararat Valley were included in the center of the province.

In 1828, the khanates of Erivan and the Nakhichevan were annexed from Persia by the Russian Empire through the Treaty of Turkmenchay. The newly annexed territories were incorporated into a single administrative unit known as the Armenian Oblast. In 1849, the oblast was reorganized into a governorate.^[2]

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