Kars oblast

Kars oblast Карсская область
Oblast
Coat of arms
Administrative map of the Kars Oblast
Country	Russian Empire (current Turkey)
Viceroyalty	Caucasus
Established	1878
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk	3 March 1918
Capital	Kars
Area
• Total	18,739.50 km2 (7,235.36 sq mi)
Population  (1916)
• Total	364,214
• Density	19/km2 (50/sq mi)
• Urban	12.30%
• Rural	87.70%

The Kars oblast^[a] was a province (oblast) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire between 1878 and 1917. Its capital was the city of Kars, presently in Turkey. The oblast bordered the Ottoman Empire to the west, the Batum Oblast (in 1883–1903 part of the Kutaisi Governorate) to the north, the Tiflis Governorate to the northeast, and the Erivan Governorate to the east. The Kars oblast included parts of the contemporary provinces of Kars, Ardahan, and Erzurum Province of Turkey, and the Amasia Community of the Shirak Province of Armenia.^[1]

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