Olti okrug
Olti okrug
Ольтинский округ | |
|---|---|
Location in the Kars Oblast | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
| Oblast | Kars |
| Established | 1878 |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | 3 March 1918 |
| Capital | Olty (present-day Oltu) |
| Area | |
• Total | 2,983.17 km2 (1,151.81 sq mi) |
| Population (1914) | |
• Total | 40,091 |
| • Density | 13/km2 (35/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 8.13% |
| • Rural | 91.87% |
The Olti okrug was a district (okrug) of the Kars Oblast of the Russian Empire existing between 1878 and 1918. Its capital was the town of Olty (present-day Oltu), presently part of the Erzurum Province of Turkey. The okrug bordered with the Kars okrug to the southeast, the Ardahan okrug to the northwest, the Kagizman okrug to its south, the Batum Oblast to the north, and the Erzurum vilayet of the Ottoman Empire to the west.