ELISABETHPOL GOVERNORATE

'Elisabethpol Governorate' (Old Russian: ''Елисаветпольская губернiя'') was one of the ''guberniyas'' of the Russian Empire, with its centre in Elisabethpol (official name for Ganja in 1805–1918). Its area was 44,136 sq. kilometres^[1], and it had 878,415 inhabitants by 1897.^[2]
Elisabethpol Governorate was established in 1868 and included parts of Baku Governorate and Tiflis Governorate. Upon the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918 it was renamed to Ganja Governorate. The area to the south of the Murov Range was made into Karabakh Governorate General. The governorate system was abolished in the early 1920s.

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Administrative division

Demographics

References

Administrative division

Elisabethpol Governorate originally had eight ''uyezds'':

★ Elisabethpol

★ Aresh

★ Nukha

★ Kazakh

★ Djevanshir

★ Jebrail

★ Zangezur

★ Shusha

Demographics

According to the 1897 census (total population 878,415) Tatars (Azeris) at 534,086 (60.8%) and Armenians at 292,188 (33.3%) were the largest ethnic groups. Other ethnic groups included Lezgins (14,503 or 1.7%), Russians (14,146 or 1.6%), Udis (7,040 or 0.8%), Germans (3,194 or 0.4%) and Kurds (3,042 or 0.3%).

References

1. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedia: Elisabethpol Governorate
2. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedia: Elisabethpol Governorate – additional information to the article