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| Riga Governorate Рижская губерния | |||||||||
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| 1713–1783 | |||||||||
| Capital | Riga | ||||||||
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• Established | 17 July 1713 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 3 July 1783 | ||||||||
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Riga Governorate (Latvian: Rīgas guberņa, Russian: Рижская губерния, romanized: Rizhskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) and one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire, which existed from 1713 to 1783. The Province of Riga was formed to replace the Eastern Provinces of the Kingdom of Sweden in 1713. After the conquest of the regions of Ingermanland, Livonia and Estonia by Sweden in the Great Northern War in 1710. In 1713, the Provinces of Riga and Tallinn were separated into separate administrative units, and in 1713–1714, the organization and management of the Province of Riga were also defined.[1]
- ^ Ėnt︠s︡iklopedii︠a︡ Riga. P. Jērāns, G. Asaris (Izd. 1 ed.). Riga: Glav. red. ėnt︠s︡iklopediĭ. 1989. ISBN 5-89960-002-0. OCLC 22208908.
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