Ardahan okrug

The Ardahan okrug was a district (okrug) of the Kars Oblast of the Russian Empire between 1878 and 1918. The district was eponymously named for its administrative center, the town of Ardagan (present-day Ardahan), presently part of the Ardahan Province of Turkey. The okrug bordered with the Kars okrug to the south, the Olti okrug in the west, the Batum Oblast in the north, the Tiflis Governorate in the northeast, and from 1883 to 1903 the Kutais Governorate whilst the latter included the Artvin and Batum okrugs.

Ardahan okrug
Ардаганскій округъ
Okrug
Location in the Kars Oblast
CountryRussian Empire
ViceroyaltyCaucasus
OblastKars
Established1878
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk3 March 1918
CapitalArdagan
(present-day Ardahan)
Area
  Total5,596.88 km2 (2,160.97 sq mi)
Population
 (1916)
  Total89,036
  Density16/km2 (41/sq mi)
  Urban
3.56%
  Rural
96.44%
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