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Taurida Governorate
Summary
The Taurida Governorate was a 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 territories of the former Crimean Khanate that was annexed by the Russian Empire in 1783. The governorate's centre was the city of Simferopol. The province was named after the ancient Greek name of Crimea - Taurida.
Today the territory of the governorate is part of the AR Crimea, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine.
The governorate comprised three counties (uyezds) on the mainland:
Berdyansky Uyezd, centred in Berdyansk
Dneprovsky Uyezd, Oleshky
Melitopolsky Uyezd, Melitopol
and five counties plus two city authorities (gradonachalstvo) on the peninsula:
Yevpatoriysky Uyezd, Yevpatoria
Perekopsky Uyezd, Perekop
Simferopolsky Uyezd, Simferopol
Feodosiysky Uyezd, Feodosiya
Yaltinsky Uyezd, Yalta
City of Kerch, Yeni-Kale fortress
City of Sevastopol
Before 1820 the governorate consisted of seven counties, including Tmutarakan county on the Taman Peninsula on the eastern side of the Kerch Strait. The Yalta and Berdyansk counties formed later. From 1804 to 1829 there also existed the gradonachalstvo of Feodosiya; and in 1914 Yalta county became the gradonachalstvo of Yalta.
In December 1917 the governorate split, with most of its peninsular part forming the Crimean People's Republic (1917-1918), while the rest remained in undefined position including the city of Sevastopol which remained the main naval base of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Republic. The mainland counties were declared part of the Ukrainian People's Republic, yet remained under effective of jurisdiction of the Taurida Governorate.
On the Third Universal of the Tsentralna Rada of the Ukrainian People's Republic proclaimed the territory of the Ukrainian Republic as comprising: Volyn Governorate, Kiev Governorate, Podolia Governorate, Chernigov Governorate, Poltava Governorate, Kharkov Governorate, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Kherson Governorate and Taurida Governorate (not including Crimea).
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