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In 1834 an imperial decree established the Armenian district comprising territories of the former Erevan and Nakhichevan khanates.
In 1846 Transcaucasia was divided into four gubernia - Tiflis, Kutais, Shemakha, and Derbent - an arrangement that greatly increased the number of civil service vacancies, for which all sons of bays and aghas were considered qualified.
After Vorontsov's retirement in 1865 Transcaucasia again saw a transition toward the policy of 'organic merger' with Russia and was divided in four gubernias, with the Azeri, or Caucasian Tatars population of 75% in Elizavetpol (Ganja), 58% in Baku, 42% in Erevan and 11% in Tiflis gubernias.
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