Английская Википедия:Elizavetpol Governorate

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox settlement Шаблон:History of Azerbaijan Шаблон:History of Armenia The Elizavetpol Governorate,Шаблон:Efn also known after 1918 as the Ganja Governorate,Шаблон:Efn was a province (guberniya) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Yelisavetpol (present-day Ganja). The area of the governorate stretched Шаблон:Convert and was composed of 1,275,131 inhabitants in 1916. The Elizavetpol Governorate bordered the Erivan Governorate to the west, the Tiflis Governorate and Zakatal Okrug to the north, the Dagestan Oblast to the northeast, the Baku Governorate to the east, and Iran to the south.

Geography

The area of the governorate includes the southern slope of the main Caucasus range in the northeast, where Mount Bazardüzü and other peaks rise above the snow-line; the arid steppes beside the Kura river, reaching 1000 ft. of altitude in the west and sinking to 100–200 ft. in the east, where irrigation is necessary; and the northern slopes of the Transcaucasian escarpment and portions of the Armenian Highlands, which is intersected towards its western boundary, near Lake Sevan, by chains of mountains consisting of trachytes and various crystalline rocks.

Elsewhere the country has the character of a plateau, 7,000 to 8,000 ft. high, deeply trenched by tributaries of the Aras. All varieties of climate are found in the snowclad peaks, Alpine meadows, and stony deserts of the high levels, to that of the hill slopes and of the arid Caspian steppes.

History

Elizavetpol Governorate was created by the decree "On the transformation of the administration of the Caucasian and Transcaucasian region" dated December 9, 1867. The province included the Elizavetpol uezd of the Tiflis Governorate, the Nukha and Shusha uezds of the Baku Governorate and part of the abolished Ordubad uezd. By the same decree, the Kazakh and Zangezur uezds were formed as part of the province. In 1873, three new uezds were formed in the Governorate - Aresh, Jebrail and Jevanshir. The governorate included lands of the former Ganja Khanate, Shaki Khanate, and Karabakh Khanate. It bordered with Baku Governorate, Tiflis Governorate, Erivan Governorate, Dagestan Oblast, and Persia.

From 1905, there were attempts by Armenian intelligentsia of the Russian Empire to separate the highland areas (commonly known as Mountainous Karabakh) from the rest of Elizavetpol into a zemstvo (self-governing rural community) province.

On the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in May 1918, the Elizavetpol Governorate was renamed Ganja Governorate to de-Russify the region. The neighboring Democratic Republic of Armenia claimed the entirety of the western highland sections of the governorate which as a whole formed a small Armenian majority, however, Armenian control did not exceed the western parts of Zangezur, Kazakh and Karabakh. In 1919, the entirety of Karabakh south of the Murov Range with British support was separated into the Karabakh General Governorship, following the subjugation of the Karabakh Armenian Council.

The governorate provincial system was abolished in the early 1920s after the Sovietization of Azerbaijan. In early 1921—after the Sovietization of Armenia—a Dashnak Armenian revolt that spawned in Yerevan spread to the Zangezur uezd, becoming known as the Republic of Mountainous Armenia. The rebels led by Garegin Nzhdeh finally departed Zangezur in the summer of 1921 after receiving guarantees the district would remain part of Soviet Armenia.

In the present-day, the territory of the former Elizavetpol Governorate forms the bulk of western Azerbaijan and adjacent areas of northeastern and southeastern Armenia.

Administrative divisions

The counties (uezds) of the Elizavetpol Governorate in 1917 were as follows:Шаблон:Sfn

Name	Capital	Population		Area
		1897	1916
Aresh uezd (Шаблон:Lang-ru)	Aresh (Agdash)	67,277	99,400	Шаблон:Convert
Jevanshir uezd (Шаблон:Lang-ru)	Terter (Tartar)	72,719	75,730	Шаблон:Convert
Elizavetpol uezd (Шаблон:Lang-ru)	Yelisavetpol (Ganja)	162,788	272,477	Шаблон:Convert
Zangezur uezd (Шаблон:Lang-ru)	Gerusy (Goris)	137,871	226,398	Шаблон:Convert
Kazakh uezd (Шаблон:Lang-ru)	Kazakh (Qazax)	112,074	137,049	Шаблон:Convert
Karyagino uezd (Шаблон:Lang-ru)	Karyagino (Fuzuli)	66,360	89,584	Шаблон:Convert
Nukha uezd (Шаблон:Lang-ru)	Nukha (Shaki)	120,555	185,748	Шаблон:Convert
Shusha uezd (Шаблон:Lang-ru)	Shusha	138,771	188,745	Шаблон:Convert

Demographics

The 1886 population estimate was 728,943, living in 3 cities (Elizavetpol, Nukha, and Shusha) and 1521 villages. According to 1886 statistics reported in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, the Orthodox Christians constituted 0.21% of the Governorate's population, and various sektanty ("sectarians") around 1% (~7,300 people). This means that most of the ethnic Russians in the governorate at the time (1.11% of the Governorate's 728,943 population in 1886) were members of various sectarian communities such as Doukhobors and Molokans.

Russian Empire Census

According to the Russian Empire Census, the Elizavetpol Governorate had a population of 878,415 on Шаблон:OldStyleDate, including 34,776 men and 22,702 women. The majority of the population indicated TatarШаблон:Caucasian Tatars to be their mother tongue, with a significant Armenian speaking minority.

Linguistic composition of the Elizavetpol Governorate in 1897

Language	Native speakers	%
TatarШаблон:Efn	534,086	60.80
Armenian	292,188	33.26
Kyurin	14,503	1.65
Russian	14,146	1.61
Udi	7,040	0.80
German	3,194	0.36
Kurdish	3,042	0.35
Belarusian	2,868	0.33
Tat	1,753	0.20
Georgian	1,239	0.14
Ukrainian	861	0.10
Polish	616	0.07
Kazi-Kumukh	581	0.07
Greek	558	0.06
Avar-Andean	461	0.05
Persian	338	0.04
Jewish	185	0.02
Lithuanian	116	0.01
Romanian	106	0.01
Other	534	0.06
TOTAL	878,415	100.00

Religious composition of the Elizavetpol Governorate in 1897

Faith	Male	Female	Both
			Number	%
Muslim	308,927	243,895	552,822	62.93
Armenian Apostolic	155,257	143,428	298,685	34.00
Eastern Orthodox	7,150	3,279	10,429	1.19
Old Believer	4,907	4,600	9,507	1.08
Judaism	1,013	1,017	2,030	0.23
Lutheran	1,605	1,616	3,221	0.37
Roman Catholic	685	183	868	0.10
Baptist	382	329	711	0.08
Armenian Catholic	68	37	105	0.01
Reformed	6	9	15	0.00
Anglican	5	6	11	0.00
Buddhist	1	1	2	0.00
Karaite	0	1	1	0.00
Mennonite	1	0	1	0.00
Other Christian denomination	1	2	3	0.00
Other non-Christian denomination	4	0	4	0.00
TOTAL	480,012	398,403	878,415	100.00

Kavkazskiy kalendar

According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Elizavetpol Governorate had a population of 1,275,131 on Шаблон:OldStyleDate, including 676,377 men and 598,754 women, 1,213,626 of whom were the permanent population, and 61,505 were temporary residents.Шаблон:Sfn

Nationality	Urban		Rural		TOTAL
	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Shia MuslimsШаблон:Efn	66,500	42.62	411,434	36.77	477,934	37.48
Armenians	45,254	29.00	373,605	33.38	418,859	32.85
Sunni MuslimsШаблон:Efn	34,405	22.05	270,726	24.19	305,131	23.93
Russians	8,111	5.20	28,666	2.56	36,777	2.88
North Caucasians	493	0.32	10,673	0.95	11,166	0.88
Asiatic Christians	58	0.04	10,808	0.97	10,866	0.85
Other Europeans	367	0.24	7,048	0.63	7,415	0.58
Kurds	84	0.05	3,718	0.33	3,802	0.30
Jews	406	0.26	1,706	0.15	2,112	0.17
Georgians	366	0.23	664	0.06	1,030	0.08
Roma	0	0.00	39	0.00	39	0.00
TOTAL	156,044	100.00	1,119,087	100.00	1,275,131	100.00

Known governors

• Fokion Bulatov, 1868–1876
• Alexander Nakashidze, 1880–1897
• Ivan Kireyev, 1897–1900
• Nikolai Lutsau, 1900–1905
• Yegor Baranovsky, 1905 (acting)
• Alexander Kalachev, 1905–1907
• Samkalov, 1907–1908
• Georgi Kovalev, 1908–1916
• Mikhail Poyarkov, 1916–1917

Bibliography

• Шаблон:Cite Armenia and Imperial Decline
• Шаблон:Cite The Republic of Armenia Volume 1
• Шаблон:Cite Kavkazskiy Kalendar 1917
• Шаблон:Cite Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus