Belostok Oblast

Belostok Oblast

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name = Беластокская область
Obwód białostocki
conventional_long_name = Belostok Oblast
common_name = Belostok
subdivision = Oblast
nation = Russian Empire
year_start = 1807
date_start = July 9
year_end = 1842
date_end =
p1 = Białystok Department
flag_p1 = Flag of Prussia (1803).gif
s1 = Grodno Governorate
flag_s1 = Romanov Flag.svg




image_map_caption =
capital = Belostok |latd=53 | latm=08 | latNS=N | longd=23 | longm=09 | longEW=E
political_subdiv =

Belostok Oblast ( _ru. Белостокская область, _pl. Obwód białostocki) was an administrative division in the Russian Empire. The region had a capital in Belostok (modern "Białystok").

In the 19th century, some of the oblasts were administrative divisions which had a status roughly equal to that of the guberniyas; i.e., they existed independently from the guberniyas, not as their parts as it used to be the case in the 18th century. The Oblast was created from former Prussian Białystok Department, gained by Russia in the Treaties of Tilsit.

Belostok Oblast was abolished in 1842 or 1843 when it was included into Grodno Governorate.


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