Administrative Division
Turkestan was divided into five oblasts.
- Transcaspiy Oblast (Askhabat) (until 1898 part of Caucasus Governate-General)
- Samarkand Oblast (Samarkand) (until 1886 Zeravsh Okrug, the occupied east territories of Khanate of Bukhara)
- Semirechensk Oblast (Verny) (1882-1899 part of the Governor-Generalship of the Steppes)
- Syr-Darya Oblast (Tashkent)
- Fergana Oblast (New Margelan (Skobelev)) (part of Kokand Khanate until 1876)
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