Jevanshir uezd
Jevanshir uezd
Джеванширскій уѣздъ | |
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Country | Russian Empire |
Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
Governorate | Elizavetpol |
Established | 1869 |
Abolished | 1918 |
Capital | Terter (present-day Tartar) |
Area | |
• Total | 5,296.61 km2 (2,045.03 sq mi) |
Population (1916) | |
• Total | 75,730 |
• Density | 14/km2 (37/sq mi) |
• Rural | 100.00% |
The Jevanshir uezd[a] was a county (uezd) of the Elizavetpol Governorate of the Russian Empire, with its center in Terter (present-day Tartar).[3]
Geography
The Jevanshir uezd was made up of two parts, the northeastern lowland and the southwestern mountainous part of
The administrative center of the uezd was the town Terter, located on the Yelisavetpol (Ganja)-Shusha road, about 681.6 versts from the provincial capital.[5]
History
The territory of Jevanshir and Jebrail uezds was a part of Karabakh Khanate. In 1869, it was created out of a northern part of Shusha uezd.
After the dissolution of the Russian Empire and the formation of the independent Transcaucasian republics, including the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918, the western mountainous districts of the Elizavetpol Governorate including the Shusha, Zangezur, Jebrail, Jevanshir, Kazakh and Elizavetpol uezds became subject to intense territorial disputes between Armenia and Azerbaijan throughout 1918–1920, both of whom included these areas in their territorial pretensions that they presented in memorandums to the Paris Peace Conference.
Since the collapse of Russian authority in the Transcaucasus, the mountainous portion of the uezd, which was overwhelmingly Armenian, was governed by the de facto Karabakh Council which vehemently rejected Ottoman and Azerbaijani attempts to subordinate the region. However, following the arrival of British forces in Transcaucasia, the Karabakh Council reluctantly submitted to provisional Azerbaijani rule through the Governor-Generalship of Karabakh, led by Dr. Khosrov bey Sultanov, due to the exerted British pressure on the council in August 1919.
Following the establishment of Soviet rule in Azerbaijan, the county was partitioned into several rayons, with the overwhelmingly Armenian subsections forming part of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
Administrative divisions
The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Jevanshir uezd in 1912 were as follows:[6]
Name | 1912 population | Area |
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1-y uchastok (1-й участокъ) | 28,879 | 744.71 square versts (847.53 km2; 327.23 sq mi) |
2-y uchastok (2-й участокъ) | 17,702 | 713.01 square versts (811.45 km2; 313.30 sq mi) |
3-y uchastok (3-й участокъ) | 30,217 | 3,196.34 square versts (3,637.63 km2; 1,404.50 sq mi) |
Economy
The county had 213 settlements and its population was engaged primarily in agriculture and cattlebreeding with the population in lowland part of uezd engaged in sericulture and gardening. The mountainous parts above wooden mountains were used as mountain pastures, the lower regions of the highland were cultivated for growing barley and wheat. The lowland area was used for growing cotton, rice and other various plants. The agricultural data from 1891 states the cattle stock numbered 52,800 while small cattle numbered 112,000. There were 34 factories with a total production output accounting to 37,914 rubles.[5]
Demographics
Russian Empire Census
According to the
Language | Native speakers | % |
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Tatar[b] | 52,041 | 71.56 |
Armenian | 19,551 | 26.89 |
Kurdish
|
571 | 0.79 |
Russian | 206 | 0.28 |
Persian | 143 | 0.20 |
Kyurin | 79 | 0.11 |
Georgian | 47 | 0.06 |
Greek | 46 | 0.06 |
Polish | 9 | 0.01 |
German | 5 | 0.01 |
Avar-Andean | 5 | 0.01 |
Kazi-Kumukh | 5 | 0.01 |
Ukrainian | 2 | 0.00 |
Other | 9 | 0.01 |
TOTAL | 72,719 | 100.00 |
Kavkazskiy kalendar
According to the 1917 publication of
Nationality | Number | % |
---|---|---|
Shia Muslims[c]
|
42,766 | 56.47 |
Armenians | 22,008 | 29.06 |
Sunni Muslims[d]
|
8,032 | 10.61 |
North Caucasians
|
2,204 | 2.91 |
Russians | 715 | 0.94 |
Other Europeans
|
3 | 0.00 |
Jews | 2 | 0.00 |
TOTAL | 75,730 | 100.00 |
Notes
References
- ^ "Выпуск 1-й. Учебные заведения." [Part 1. Educational institutions.]. Перепись просветительных учреждений Азербайджана 31 января 1922 года: списки просветительных учреждений [Census of educational institutions of Azerbaijan on 31 January 1922: lists of educational institutions.] (in Russian and Azerbaijani). Baku: Azerbaijani Central Statistical Bureau. 1922. p. 13 – via State Public Historical Library of Russia.
- ^ "Выпуск 5-й. Джеванширский уезд." [Part 5. Jevanshir uezd.]. Азербайджанская сельскохозяйственная перепись 1921 года [1921 Azerbaijani agricultural census] (in Russian and Azerbaijani). Baku: Azerbaijani Central Statistical Bureau. 1922. p. 112 – via State Public Historical Library of Russia.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 280; see final three lines.
The government is divided into eight districts, Elisavetpol, Aresh, Jebrail, Jevanshir, Kazakh, Nukha, Shusha and Zangezur.
- ^ "Брокгауз-Ефрон и Большая Советская Энциклопедия" [Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedia]. Retrieved 2011-01-21.
- ^ a b "Энциклопедический Словарь. Джеванширский уезд" [Encyclopedia dictionary. Javanshir uyezd]. Retrieved 2011-01-21.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1913 год, pp. 152–159.
- ^ Bournoutian 2018, p. 35 (note 25).
- ^ Tsutsiev 2014, p. 50.
- ^ a b "Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку и уездам Российской Империи кроме губерний Европейской России" [First All Russian Imperial Census of 1897. Population split according to languages spoken; uyezds of Russian empire except for governorates in European part of empire]. Retrieved 2011-01-21.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 190–197.
- ^ a b Hovannisian 1971, p. 67.
Bibliography
- OCLC 1037283914.
- ISBN 978-0520019843.
- Кавказский календарь на 1913 год [Caucasian calendar for 1913] (in Russian) (68th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1913. Archived from the original on 19 April 2022.
- Кавказский календарь на 1917 год [Caucasian calendar for 1917] (in Russian) (72nd ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1917. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021.
- Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014). Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus (PDF). Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven: ISBN 9780300153088. Archived(PDF) from the original on 17 June 2023.