Kars oblast
Kars oblast
Карсская область | |
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Administrative map of the Kars oblast | |
| Coordinates: 40°36′25″N 43°05′35″E / 40.6069°N 43.0931°E | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
| Established | 1878 |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | 3 March 1918 |
| Capital | Kars |
| Area | |
• Total | 18,739.50 km2 (7,235.36 sq mi) |
| Population (1916) | |
• Total | 364,214 |
| • Density | 19/km2 (50/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 12.30% |
| • Rural | 87.70% |
The Kars oblast was a province (oblast) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire between 1878 and 1917. Its capital was the city of Kars, which later became part of 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, and the Erivan Governorate to the east. The Kars oblast included parts of the contemporary provinces of Kars, Ardahan, and Erzurum Province of Turkey, and the Amasia Community of the Shirak Province of Armenia.