Place:Tavrida, Russia

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The Taurida Governorate (modern spelling Таврическая губерния,) or Government of Taurida 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 defunct Taurida Oblast in was abolished in 1802 in course of Paul I's administrative reform of the South-Western territories that were annexed from the Crimean Khanate. The governorate's centre was the city of Simferopol. The province was named after the ancient Greek name of Crimea - Taurida.

It was divided into eight uyezds and two city municipalities (градоначальство), of them on the mainland:

• Berdyansk uyezd (Berdyansk - Бердянскъ)
• Dnieper uyezd (centre Aleshki - Алешки)
• Melitopol uyezd (Melitopol - Мелитополь)

and in Crimea:

• Eupatoria uyezd (Eupatoria - Евпаторiя)
• Perekop uyezd (Perekop - Перекопъ)
• Simferopol uyezd (Simferopol - Симферополь)
• Theodosia uyezd (Theodosia - Ѳеодосiя)
• Yalta uyezd (Yalta - Ялта)
• city of Kerch - Керчь
• city of Sebastopol - Севастополь

History

The area covered by this historic governorate was moved to Ukraine in 1954.

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