Surmalu uezd

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Surmalu uezd was a historical administrative district of the Russian Empire’s Erivan Governorate, located in the South Caucasus region.

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Surmalu uezd canonical 4

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Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative district
uezd
administrativeCentre Surmali
administrativeDivisionOf Caucasus Viceroyalty
borderedBy Alexandropol uezd
Etchmiadzin uezd
linked to: Armenian Oblast

Kars Oblast
Nakhichevan uezd
Persia
capital Surmali
contains Aras River
Mount Ararat
country Russian Empire
dissolvedIn 20th century
establishedIn 19th century
ethnicComposition Armenians
Azerbaijanis
Kurds
governedBy Tsarist Russian administration
hasFeature fertile river valleys
volcanic landscapes
historicalEventContext Russo-Persian conflicts
World War I
collapse of the Russian Empire
historicalRegion Armenia
Eastern Anatolia
linked to: eastern Turkey
historicalStatus abolished administrative unit
language Armenian
Azerbaijani
Kurdish
Russian
locatedIn Caucasus Viceroyalty
South Caucasus
Transcaucasia
linked to: South Caucasus
namedAfter Surmali
partOf Ararat plain
Erivan Governorate
presentIn Iğdır Province
linked to: Iğdır

modern Turkey
linked to: Turkey
regionType borderland district
religiousCommunities Armenian Apostolic Christians
Shia Muslims
linked to: Shia Islam

Sunni Muslims
linked to: Sunni Islam
timePeriod early 20th century
late 19th century

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Erivan Governorate contains Surmalu uezd
Erivan uezd borderedBy Surmalu uezd
Surmali locatedIn Surmalu uezd
Treaty of Kars territoryGranted Surmalu uezd