Taurida Governorate

Taurida Governorate

Taurida Governorate ranks 9,468th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hashimoto, Wakayama, Tanabe, Wakayama, and Shingū, Wakayama. Memorable people born in Taurida Governorate include Mariya Oktyabrskaya, and Andrei Zhelyabov. Taurida Governorate has been the birth place of many military personnels, and politicians. Taurida Governorate is located in .

Taurida Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire. It included the territory of the Crimean Peninsula and the mainland between the lower Dnieper River with the coasts of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. It formed after the Taurida Oblast was abolished in 1802 during Paul I's administrative reform of the territories of the former Crimean Khanate, which were annexed by Russia from the Ottoman Empire in 1783. The governorate's centre was the city of Simferopol. The name of the province was derived from Taurida, a historical name for Crimea. Read more on Wikipedia