CREATING OF IREVAN GOVERNORATE

Abstract

The article examines the history of the Irevan province, which was the administrative unit of the province within Tsarist Russia from 1849 to 1917 and covered the lands of Western Azerbaijan. Research shows that the territories where the Irevan province was located were part of the historical lands of Azerbaijan, and Tsarist Russia established the Irevan province on June 9, 1849 on the territory of the former Irevan and Nakhchivan khanates after occupying the northern lands of Azerbaijan. The Russian occupation of northern Azerbaijan not only changed the administrative-territorial structure of Azerbaijan, but also the ethnic views of the region. As a result of the mass resettlement of Armenians to the region from 1828, the numerical advantage of the Azerbaijani Turks was gradually forcibly changed in favor of the newcomers, and in 1918 a state called Armenia was established in the territories of Western Azerbaijan. All of these is researched in the article on the sources of the period of Tsarist Russia and reveals the historical truth.