24. Thus, the Russian scholar K. Shavrov records that, over the period 18281830 alone, some 40,000 Persian and 84,000 Turkish Armenians were relocated in the TransCaucasus, where they were settled in the best indigenous lands of the Yelisavetpol (Karabagh) and Erivan provinces, where the Armenian population had previously been negligible and where they were allocated 200,000 dessiatines (225,000 hectares) of State land.