Russian Turkestan - Administrative Division

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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