Georgia Governorate

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The Georgia Governorate was an administrative division of the Russian Empire that encompassed much of eastern Georgia in the early 19th century before later territorial reorganizations.

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Georgia Governorate canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf governorate of the Russian Empire
appliesToTerritorialEntity Kakheti NERFINISHED
Kartli NERFINISHED
borderedBy Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED
Persian Empire NERFINISHED
capital Tbilisi NERFINISHED
Tiflis NERFINISHED
continent Asia
Europe
country Russian Empire
dissolved 1840
followed Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti NERFINISHED
governmentType imperial governorate
hasCapitalFunction seat of Russian administration in Eastern Georgia
hasTerritorialChange territory reorganized into Tiflis and Kutaisi governorates in 1840s
hasTypeOfAdministration military-civil administration
historicalRegion Caucasus NERFINISHED
historyEvent incorporation of Kartli-Kakheti into the Russian Empire
inception 1801
includesEthnicGroup Armenians NERFINISHED
Azerbaijanis NERFINISHED
Georgians NERFINISHED
Ossetians NERFINISHED
Russians NERFINISHED
legalStatus imperial province
locatedIn Caucasus NERFINISHED
Eastern Georgia NERFINISHED
namedAfter Georgia NERFINISHED
officialLanguage Russian
partOf Caucasus Viceroyalty NERFINISHED
Russian Caucasus administration NERFINISHED
Transcaucasia NERFINISHED
precededBy Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti NERFINISHED
religion Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy

Islam
replacedBy Kutaisi Governorate NERFINISHED
Tiflis Governorate NERFINISHED
subdivisionOf Russian Empire NERFINISHED
timePeriod early 19th century

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Georgia-Imeretia Governorate precededBy Georgia Governorate