Azov Governorate [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Azov Governorate
Azov Governorate (, "Azovskaya guberniya") was an administrative division (a "guberniya") of the Russian Empire, which existed from 1775 until 1783. The administrative seat of the Azov Government was in the fortress of Belyov Fortress and later in Yekaterinoslav.
Geography and history.
Azov Governorate was located in the northeastern Azov littoral region and covered only the southern half of the previously existing Azov Governorate of 1708-25. The new division was created from the southern Bakhmut Province of Voronezh Governorate and
Taurida Governorate
The Taurida Governorate (, modern spelling Таврическая губерния, "Tavricheskaya guberniya"; , "Tavrijśka gubernija"; , "Таврида губерниясы") or the Government of Taurida was an historical governorate of the Russian Empire. It included the Crimean Peninsula and the mainland between the lower Dnieper River and the coasts of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. It was formed after the Taurida Oblast was abolished in 1802 in the course of Paul I's administrative reform of the South-Western territories that had been annexed from