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{{Short description|Oblast of the Russian Empire}}
{{italic title|string=oblast}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Batum Oblast
| extinct_date = 3 March 1918
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| population_rural = 87.98%
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The '''Batum Oblast'''{{efn|{{bulleted list|{{Lang-ru|Бату́мская о́бласть|translit=Batúmskaya óblast}}|{{lang-tr|Batum Oblastı}}|{{lang-ka|ბათუმის ოლქი|tr}}}}}} was a province (''[[oblast]]'') of the [[Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917)|Caucasus Viceroyalty]] of the [[Russian Empire]], with the [[Black Sea]] port of Batum (present-day [[Batumi]]) as its administrative center. The Batum Oblast roughly corresponded to most of present-day southwestern [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], and part of the [[Artvin Province]] of [[Turkey]].{{sfn|Tsutsiev|2014}}
==History==
The Batum Oblast was created out of the territories of the [[Ottoman Empire]]'s [[Batum Sanjak]], following the region's annexation into the [[Russian Empire]] in the aftermath of the [[Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)|1878 Russo-Turkish War]]. Established in 1878, the Batum Oblast was later downgraded to an okrug in 1883 and incorporated into the Kutais Governorate (until 1903).
According to the [[Treaty of Brest-Litovsk]], the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]] ceded the Batum Oblast to the Ottoman Empire, however, the [[Transcaucasian Seim]], the authority in [[Transcaucasia]] by 1918, rejected the treaty, opting to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire on its own terms. Such action led to the former's dissolution and the subsequent [[Treaty of Batum]], which resulted in the inevitable reannexation of Batum to the Ottoman Empire.
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== Administrative divisions ==
The districts (''[[okrug]]s'') of the Black Sea Governorate in 1917 were as follows:<ref name=":1" /
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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==Demographics==
=== Russian Empire
According to the [[Russian Empire Census
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Linguistic composition of the Batum Oblast in 1897<ref name=":1" />
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| align="right" |0.25
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|Tatar{{Caucasian Tatars}}
| align="right" |355
| align="right" |0.25
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=== Caucasian Calendar (1917) ===
According to the 1917 publication of
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! rowspan="2" |Nationality
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| align="right" |11.68
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|[[Russians]]
| align="right" |5,042
| align="right" |18.66
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| align="right" |0.79
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|[[Shia Muslims]]{{Efn|Primarily Tatars
| align="right" |529
| align="right" |1.96
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== Bibliography ==
{{Refbegin}}
*{{Cite Armenia and Imperial Decline}}
*{{Cite The Republic of Armenia Volume 1}}
*{{Cite Kavkazskiy Kalendar 1913}}
*{{Cite Kavkazskiy Kalendar 1917}}
*{{Cite Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus}}
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