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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Batum ''oblast''
| extinct_date = 3 March 1918
| seat_type = Capital
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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
==History==
The Batum ''oblast'' was created out of the territories of the [[Ottoman Empire]]'s sanjak of Batum 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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