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Terek oblast Терская область
Oblast
Coat of arms
Administrative map of the Terek Oblast
Country	Russian Empire
Viceroyalty	Caucasus
Established	1873
Abolished	1917
Capital	Vladikavkaz
Area
• Total	72,443.86 km (27,970.73 sq mi)
Highest elevation	5,642 m (18,510 ft)
Population
• Total	1,377,923
• Density	19/km (49/sq mi)
• Urban	17.50%
• Rural	82.50%

The Terek Oblast was a province (oblast) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, roughly corresponding to the central part of Russia's North Caucasian Federal District. Тhe оblast was created out of the former territories of the North Caucasian Peoples, following their conquests by Russia throughout the 19th century. The Terek Oblast bordered the Astrakhan and Stavropol governorates to the north, the Kuban Oblast to the west, the Kutaisi and Tiflis governorates to the south, and the Dagestan Oblast to the east. The administrative center of the oblast was Vladikavkaz, the current capital of North Ossetia–Alania within Russia.

Administrative divisions

The districts (okrugs), Cossack districts (otdels), and pristavstvo [ru] of the Terek oblast in 1917 were as follows:

Demographics

Russian Empire Census

According to the Russian Empire Census, the Terek oblast had a population of 933,936 on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 485,568 men and 448,368 women. The plurality of the population indicated Russian to be their mother tongue, with significant Chechen, Ossetian, Kabardian, and Ingush speaking minorities.

Linguistic composition of uezds in the Terek Oblast in 1897

Kavkazskiy kalendar

According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Terek oblast had a population of 1,377,923 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 722,685 men and 655,238 women, 1,113,608 of whom were the permanent population, and 264,315 were temporary residents:

Notes

1. Russian: Те́рская о́бласть, romanized: Térskaya óblast
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. Majority Nogai
4. Majority Tatar
5. Majority Kumyk
6. Primarily Turco-Tatars.
7. Primarily Tatars.

References

1. ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 226–237.
2. "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2024-09-20.
3. Кавказский календарь .... на 1917 год (in Russian).
4. ^ "Демоскоп Weekly – Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru.
5. Bournoutian 2018, p. 35 (note 25).
6. Tsutsiev 2014, p. 50.
7. "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
8. "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
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 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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