Kazikumukhsky okrug
The Kazikumukhsky okrug[lower-alpha 1] was a district (okrug) of the Dagestan Oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The area of the Kazikumukhsky okrug is included in contemporary Dagestan of the Russian Federation. The district's administrative centre was Kumukh.[1]
Kazikumukhsky okrug
Казикумухскій округъ | |
|---|---|
 Location in the Dagestan Oblast | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
| Oblast | Dagestan |
| Established | 1860 |
| Abolished | 1922 |
| Capital | Kumukh |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,446.25 km2 (558.40 sq mi) |
| Population (1916) | |
| • Total | 51,250 |
| • Density | 35/km2 (92/sq mi) |
| • Rural | 100.00% |
Administrative divisions
The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Kazikumukhsky okrug were as follows:[2]
| Name | 1912 population | Area |
|---|---|---|
| Vitskhinskiy uchastok (Вицхинскій участокъ) | 21,639 | 335.29 square versts (381.58 km2; 147.33 sq mi) |
| Kazikumukhskiy uchastok (Казикумухскій участокъ) | 28,712 | 935.51 square versts (1,064.67 km2; 411.07 sq mi) |
Demographics
Russian Empire Census
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Kazikumukhsky okrug had a population of 45,363 on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 18,122 men and 27,241 women. The majority of the population indicated Kazi-Kumukh to be their mother tongue, with significant Dargin and Avar speaking minorities.[3]
| Language | Native speakers | % |
|---|---|---|
| Kazi-Kumukh | 38,014 | 83.80 |
| Dargin | 3,657 | 8.06 |
| Avar-Andean | 2,446 | 5.39 |
| Kyurin | 943 | 2.08 |
| Tatar[lower-alpha 2] | 145 | 0.32 |
| Kumyk | 47 | 0.10 |
| Russian | 27 | 0.06 |
| Georgian | 24 | 0.05 |
| Jewish | 12 | 0.03 |
| Armenian | 7 | 0.02 |
| German | 1 | 0.00 |
| Polish | 1 | 0.00 |
| Ukrainian | 1 | 0.00 |
| Other | 38 | 0.08 |
| TOTAL | 45,363 | 100.00 |
Kavkazskiy kalendar
According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Kazikumukhsky okrug had a population of 51,250 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 25,385 men and 25,865 women, 51,092 of whom were the permanent population, and 158 were temporary residents:[6]
| Nationality | Number | % |
|---|---|---|
| North Caucasians | 51,212 | 99.93 |
| Russians | 37 | 0.07 |
| Armenians | 1 | 0.00 |
| TOTAL | 51,250 | 100.00 |
Notes
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- Russian: Казикумýхский о́круг, pre-reform orthography: Казикумýхскій о́кругъ, romanized: Kazikumúkhsky ókrug
- Before 1918, Azerbaijanis were generally known as "Tatars". This term, employed by the Russians, referred to Turkic-speaking Muslims of the South Caucasus. After 1918, with the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and "especially during the Soviet era", the Tatar group identified itself as "Azerbaijani".[4][5]
References
- Tsutsiev 2014.
- Кавказский календарь на 1913 год, pp. 144–151.
- "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
- Bournoutian 2018, p. 35 (note 25).
- Tsutsiev 2014, p. 50.
- Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 186–193.
Bibliography
- Bournoutian, George A. (2018). Armenia and Imperial Decline: The Yerevan Province, 1900–1914. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-06260-2. OCLC 1037283914.
- Hovannisian, Richard G. (1971). The Republic of Armenia: The First Year, 1918–1919. Vol. 1. Berkeley: University of California Press. 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: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300153088. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 June 2023.