Vedensky okrug
Vedensky okrug Веденскій округъ | |
|---|---|
 Location in the Terek Oblast | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
| Oblast | Terek |
| Established | 1905 |
| Abolished | 1921 |
| Capital | Vedeno[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,803.05 km2 (1,468.37 sq mi) |
| Population (1916) | |
• Total | 127,718 |
| • Density | 34/km2 (87/sq mi) |
| • Rural | 100.00% |
The Vedensky okrug[a] was a district (okrug) of the Terek Oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The area of the Vedensky okrug made up part of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia. The district was eponymously named for its administrative centre, Vedeno.[2]
Administrative divisions
The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Vedensky okrug were as follows:[3]
| Name | 1912 population |
|---|---|
| 1-y uchastok (1-й участок) | 22,437 |
| 2-y uchastok (2-й участок) | 18,151 |
| 3-y uchastok (3-й участок) | 33,731 |
| 4-y uchastok (4-й участок) | 24,960 |
Demographics
Kavkazskiy kalendar
According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Vedensky okrug had a population of 127,718 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 67,444 men and 60,274 women, 125,801 of whom were the permanent population, and 1,917 were temporary residents:[4]
| Nationality | Number | % |
|---|---|---|
| North Caucasians | 127,048 | 99.48 |
| Sunni Muslims[b] | 311 | 0.24 |
| Russians | 307 | 0.24 |
| Shia Muslims[c] | 26 | 0.02 |
| Armenians | 13 | 0.01 |
| Other Europeans | 7 | 0.01 |
| Georgians | 6 | 0.00 |
| TOTAL | 127,718 | 100.00 |
Notes
References
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1911 год, col. 179.
- ^ Tsutsiev 2014.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1913 год, pp. 180–187.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 226–237.
- ^ a b Hovannisian 1971, p. 67.
Bibliography
- 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 1911 год [Caucasus calendar for 1911] (in Russian) (66th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1911. Archived from the original on 31 January 2022.
- 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.