Batum oblast
Batum oblast
Батумская область | |
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Administrative map of the Batum Oblast | |
| Coordinates: 41°38′45″N 41°38′30″E / 41.64583°N 41.64167°E | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
| Established | 1873 |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | 3 March 1918 |
| Capital | Batum (present-day Batumi) |
| Area | |
• Total | 6,975.65 km2 (2,693.31 sq mi) |
| Population (1916) | |
• Total | 122,811 |
| • Density | 18/km2 (46/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 22.00% |
| • Rural | 78.00% |
The Batum oblast was a province (oblast) 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 the present-day Adjara autonomous region of Georgia, and most of the Artvin Province of Turkey.