Place:Elisavetpol', Russia

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NameElisavetpol'
Alt namesElisabethpolsource: Wikipedia
Elisavetpol'source: WeRelate abbreviation
TypeHistorical Province, Province
Located inRussia
Also located inAzerbaijan    
source: Family History Library Catalog


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The Elizavetpol Governorate (pre-reform Russian: , tr. Yelisavetpólskaya gubérniya; ; ), also known as the Ganja Governorate after 1918, was a guberniya ("governorate") of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Elizavetpol (Ganja). The area of the governorate stretched 44,136 sq. kilometres and included 878,415 inhabitants by 1897. The Elizavetpol Governorate bordered the Erivan Governorate to the west, the Tiflis Governorate and Zakatal Okrug to the north, the Dagestan Oblast to the northeast, the Baku Governorate to the east, and Persia to the south.


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