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The Batum oblast was a province of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, with the Black Sea port of Batum (present-day Batumi) as its administrative center. The Batum oblast roughly corresponded to most of present-day southwestern Georgia, and part of the Artvin Province of Turkey.
- Batumi okrug
The Batumi okrug was a district of the Batum Oblast of the...
- Kars oblast
The Kars oblast [b] was a province ( oblast) of the Caucasus...
- Batumi okrug
Batumi (/ b ɑː ˈ t uː m i /; Georgian: ბათუმი pronounced ⓘ), historically Batum or Batoum, is the second-largest city of Georgia and the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, located on the coast of the Black Sea in Georgia's southwest, 20 kilometers north of the border with Turkey.
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- 8th century
- 3 m (10 ft)
- Georgia
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Batumi ( Georgian: ბათუმი) is the capital city of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia, located on the eastern coast of the Black Sea . The history of Batumi is inextricably bound with that of Adjara. Founded on the site of the Hellenic colony of Bathys, it was a small fortified town in the medieval kingdom of Georgia.
The Batumi okrug was a district of the Batum Oblast of the Russian Empire existing between 1878 and 1918. The district was eponymously named for its administrative center, the town of Batum (present-day Batumi), now part of Adjara within Georgia.
- 1878
- Batum
Batum Oblast. Belostok Oblast. Bessarabia Oblast. Don Voisko Oblast. Dagestan Oblast. Zabaikalskaya Oblast. Imeretinskaya Oblast. Caucasian. Kamchatka Oblast. Kars Oblast. Caspian Oblast (1840-1846) Kwantung Oblast. Kuban Oblast. Orenburg Kirgiz. Omsk Oblast. Primorskaya Oblast. Sakhalin.
- 1917 (inherited by the Soviet regime)
- Subdivision of an empire
The Kars oblast [b] was a province ( oblast) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire between 1878 and 1917. Its capital was the city of Kars, presently in Turkey. The oblast bordered the Ottoman Empire to the west, the Batum Oblast (in 1883–1903 part of the Kutaisi Governorate) to the north, the Tiflis Governorate to the northeast ...
Kars is the setting of the 2002 novel Snow ( Kar in Turkish) by Orhan Pamuk. Yerkir Nairi, a novel by Yeghishe Charents, is dedicated to the public figures and places of Kars, the author's hometown. Modest Mussorgsky composed the march "The Capture of Kars" to commemorate Russia's victory there in 1855.
