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Dagestan Oblast Дагестанская область
Oblast
Coat of arms
Administrative map of the Dagestan Oblast
Country	Russian Empire
Viceroyalty	Caucasus
Established	1860
Abolished	1921
Capital	Temir-Khan-Shura (present-day Buynaksk)
Area
• Total	29,709.63 km (11,470.95 sq mi)
Highest elevation	4,466 m (14,652 ft)
Population
• Total	713,342
• Density	24/km (62/sq mi)
• Urban	9.81%
• Rural	90.19%

The Dagestan Oblast was a province (oblast) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It roughly corresponded to most of present-day southeastern Dagestan within the Russian Federation. The Dagestan oblast was created in 1860 out of the territories of the former Caucasian Imamate, bordering the Terek Oblast to the north, the Tiflis Governorate and Zakatal Okrug to the west, the Elizavetpol Governorate to the south, and Baku Governorate to the east. The administrative center of the oblast was Temir-Khan-Shura (present-day Buynaksk).

Administrative divisions

The districts (okrugs) of the Dagestan oblast in 1917 were as follows:

Bold line denotes the largest city.

Demographics

Russian Empire Census

According to the Russian Empire Census, the Dagestan oblast had a population of 571,154 on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 283,279 men and 287,875 women. The plurality of the population indicated Avar-Andean to be their mother tongue, with significant Dargin, Kyurin, Kazi-Kumukh, Kumyk, and Tatar speaking minorities.

Linguistic composition of uezds in the Dagestan Oblast in 1897

Kavkazskiy kalendar

According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Dagestan oblast had a population of 713,342 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 369,737 men and 343,605 women, 659,976 of whom were the permanent population, and 53,366 were temporary residents:

Notes

1. Russian: Дагестанская область, romanized: Dagestanskaya oblast
2. ^ 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".
3. Primarily Turco-Tatars.
4. Primarily Tatars.

References

1. Tsutsiev 2014.
2. ^ "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru.
3. ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 186–193.
4. "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2024-09-20.
5. Кавказский календарь .... на 1917 год (in Russian).
6. Bournoutian 2018, p. 35 (note 25).
7. Tsutsiev 2014, p. 50.
8. "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
9. ^ Hovannisian 1971, p. 67.

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.

v t e Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917)
Capital: Tiflis (Tbilisi)
Special administrative divisions	Baku gradonachalstvo Zakatal okrug Sukhumi okrug
Governorates	Baku Governorate Baku uezd Geokchay uezd Javad uezd Kuba uezd Lenkoran uezd Shemakha uezd Elizavetpol Governorate Aresh uezd Jevanshir uezd Elizavetpol uezd Zangezur uezd Kazakh uezd Jebrail uezd Nukha uezd Shusha uezd Kutaisi Governorate Zugdidi uezd Kutaisi uezd Lechkhumi uezd Ozurgeti uezd Racha uezd Senaki uezd Shorapani uezd Tiflis Governorate Akhalkalaki uezd Akhaltsikhe uezd Borchaly uezd Gori uezd Dusheti uezd Signakh uezd Telavi uezd Tiflis uezd Tionety uezd Black Sea Governorate Novorossiysky okrug Sochinsky okrug Tuapsinsky okrug Erivan Governorate Alexandropol uezd Nakhichevan uezd Nor Bayazet uezd Surmalu uezd Sharur-Daralayaz uezd Erivan uezd Etchmiadzin uezd
Oblasts	Batum oblast Artvin okrug Batumi okrug Dagestan oblast Avarskiy okrug Andiyskiy okrug Gunibskiy okrug Darginskiy okrug Kazikumukhskiy okrug Kaytago-Tabasaranskiy okrug Kyurinskiy okrug Samurskiy okrug Temir-Khan-Shurinskiy okrug Kars oblast Ardahan okrug Kagizman okrug Kars okrug Olti okrug Kuban oblast Batalpashinsky otdel Yeysky otdel Yekaterinodarsky otdel Kavkazsky otdel Labinsky otdel Maykopsky otdel Tamansky otdel Terek oblast Vedensky okrug Vladikavkazsky okrug Groznensky okrug Nazran okrug Nalchiksky okrug Kizlyarsky otdel Mozdoksky otdel Pyatigorsky otdel Sunzhensky otdel Khasavyurtovsky okrug

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