Taurida Governorate
| Taurida Governorate Таврическая губернiя |
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| Governorate of Russian Empire | ||||||
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| Capital | Simferopol | |||||
| History | ||||||
| • | Established | October 8 (old style), 1802 1802 (1783) | ||||
| • | Disestablished | 1921 | ||||
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| • | 1918 | 63,538 km2(24,532 sq mi) | ||||
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| • | 1906 | 1,634,700 | ||||
The Taurida Governorate (Russian: Таврическая губернiя, modern spelling Таврическая губерния, Tavricheskaya guberniya; Ukrainian: Таврiйська губернiя, Tavrijśka gubernija; Crimean Tatar: Tavrida guberniyası, Таврида губерниясы) or the Government of Taurida was an historical governorate of the Russian Empire. It included the Crimean Peninsula and the mainland between the lower Dnieper River and the coasts of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. It was formed after the Taurida Oblast was abolished in 1802 in the course of Paul I's administrative reform of the South-Western territories that had been annexed from the Crimean Khanate. The governorate's centre was the city of Simferopol. The province was named after the ancient Greek name of Crimea - Taurida.
The governorate was divided into eight counties (uyezds) and two city municipalities (gradonachalstvo),
three of them on the mainland:
and five in Crimea:
Before 1820 the governorate consisted of seven counties that included Tmutarakan county on the Taman peninsula across the Strait of Kerch. Later were created Yalta and Berdyansk counties. In 1804-29 there also existed the separate city of Theodosia and in 1914 Yalta county became the autonomous city of Yalta.
In 1917 the governorate was split, with most of its peninsular part forming the Crimean People's Republic, less the city of Sevastopol which remained the main naval base of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Republic, while the rest became part of Ukrainian People's Republic.
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