Talk:Caucasus Viceroyalty (1785–1796)

Fact check
ru:Кавказское наместничество Екатериноград Образована 	5 мая 1785 Упразднена 	31 декабря 1796 года

Тифлис Образована 	27 декабря 1844 года Упразднена 	22 ноября 1881 года

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus_Viceroyalty 1801–1917

Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 04:39, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Q1: What dates are correct?
 * Q2: How to have two periods in the template in the CVR article?
 * Q3: Or split?
 * Q4: What was the jurisdiction between 1796 and 1844 or more general between the 1st and the 2nd CVR?
 * Q1. Both sets of dates are correct. The viceroyalty was first established in 1785 by Catherine the Great by transforming Astrakhan Governorate and adding some lands from Taurida Oblast. It was abolished by Paul I in 1796. In 1844, a viceroyalty of the same name was created again; it existed until 1881.
 * Q2/3. I don't think the template supports it. A split is possible (that's what was done for Northern Oblast, for example, although it's not an identical situation). Actually, I think a split is a good idea. The two viceroyalties share nothing in common but the name; it really makes little sense to dump them both into one article as it was done in the Russian Wikipedia.
 * Q4: It's complicated :) Caucasus Viceroyalty was abolished in 1796, but its parts were not. Caucasus Governorate, which accounted for a good chunk of the abolished viceroyalty, was renamed Astrakhan Governorate. It was split in 1803 into Caucasus Governorate and Astrakhan Governorate. In 1822, Caucasus Governorate was transformed into Caucasus Oblast, which was renamed Stavropol Governorate in 1847. Lest you are wondering how the second Caucasus Viceroyalty enters into this, it was established in 1844 on the territories the Russian Empire recently acquired and did not overlap with then-existing Caucasus Oblast. I'd speculate that the reason Caucasus Oblast was renamed was to avoid confusion with the new viceroyalty, but I can't back this statement up with sources.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 13, 2013; 13:40 (UTC)
 * Q1: "Both sets of dates are correct" - There are three. Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 23:54, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Ah, yes. The third one overlapped the territory of the second and existed between 1905 and 1917.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 17, 2013; 00:21 (UTC)

Transliteration and translation
Would be nice if someone with good knowledge of transliteration could Romanize the Cyrillic names. Also it would be nice if the exact title of these people would be stated. Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 00:37, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Astrakhan Governorate
...predecessor and successor, exists in nine Wikipedias: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q497790, but in the English it got deleted by a now retired user. Can this be undone? Aleksandr Krymsky (talk) 00:55, 17 March 2013 (UTC)