Elisabethpol Governorate

Elisabethpol Governorate (English) Елизаветпольская губерния (Modern Russian) Елисаветпольская губернiя (Old Russian)
Coat of Arms
Coat of arms of Elisabethpol Governorate
Established	1868
Abolished	1917
Political status Region	Governorate Caucasus
Area
Area - Rank	38,782.5 verst² n/a
Population (1897 census)
Population - Rank - Density - Urban - Rural	878,415 inhabitants n/a 22.6 inhab. / verst² 10.16% 89.84%
Government
First Head Last Head	n/a n/a

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Elisavetpol.

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.

Administrative division

Elisabethpol Governorate originally had eight uyezds:^[1]

• Elisabethpol
• Aresh
• Nukha
• Kazakh
• Djevanshir
• Karyagino
• Zangezur
• Shusha

Demographics

According to the 1897 census (total population 878,415) Azeris ("Aderbaijani Tatars") 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%).

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^[3]

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