Kazan Governorate
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Kazan Governorate in the late 19th century
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| Established | 1708 | |
| Abolished | 1920 | |
| Political status | Governorate | |
| Region | European Russia | |
| Area | 55,900 verst² | |
| Population (1913 census) | ||
| • Total | 2850000 | |
| • Density | 51 inhab. / verst² | |
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The Kazan Governorate (Russian: Каза́нская губе́рния; Tatar: Cyrillic Казан губернасы, Latin Qazan ğubernası, Arabic قازان عوبئرناسئ; Chuvash: Хусан кӗперниӗ, Husan kĕperniĕ), or the Government of Kazan, was a governorate (a guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR from 1708–1920, with its seat in the city of Kazan.
Kazan Governorate, together with seven other governorates, was established on December 29 [O.S. December 18], 1708, by Tsar Peter the Great's edict on the lands of the Khanates of Kazan, Sibir, and Astrakhan, with addition of some lands from the Nogai Horde. These were the areas historically governed by the Kazan Palace's Prikaz. As with the rest of the governorates, neither the borders nor internal subdivisions of Kazan Governorate were defined; instead, the territory was defined as a set of cities and the lands adjacent to those cities.
In 1717, Astrakhan Governorate was separated from Kazan Governorate; in 1719—Nizhny Novgorod; in 1744—Orenburg; in 1781—Vyatka, Simbirsk, and Ufa Governorates were separated. Under Catherine the Great (1781–1796) Kazan was the center of a namestnichestvo (viceroyalty), with Kazan, Penza, and Saratov Governorates as its integral parts.
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