Jebrail Uyezd

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Jebrail Uyezd
Джебраильский уезд
Coat of arms of Jebrail Uyezd
Jebrail Uyezd of Elisabethpol Governorate.png
CountryRussia
Political statusUyezd
RegionCaucasus
Established1873
Abolished1921
Area
 • Total3,729 km2 (1,440 sq mi)
Population
 (1916)
 • Total89,584
 • Density24/km2 (62/sq mi)
Karabakh Khanate on a map of 1823

The Jebrail Uyezd (Russian: Джебраильский уезд), also transliterated as Dzhebrailskiy Uyezd (known as the Karyagino Uyezd since 1905), was one of the uyezds (administrative units) of Elisabethpol Governorate of the Russian Empire with its center in Jabrayil from 1873[1] until its formal abolition in 1921 by the Soviet authorities.[2]

Geography[]

The Elisabethpol Governorate as a whole consisted of the Elisabethpol, Nukha, Shusha, Zangezur, Kazakh, Aresh, Jebrail, and Jevanshir Uyezds.[3] The Jabrayil uyezd was located in the southeastern part of Elisabethpol Governorate bordering its Shusha Uyezd on the north, Zangezur Uyezd on the west, Baku Governorate on the east and Persian Empire on the south. The area of the uyezd was 2922.6 square verst. The northwestern part of the uyezd is mountainous. Mount Ziyarat (Azerbaijani: Ziyarət) or Dizapayt (Armenian: Դիզափայտ) reaches 8,186 feet. The higher ground was usually used for pastures. The whole uyezd was located within the Araz river basin. The tributaries of Araz, Kendalan, Kuru-chay, Chereken, Gozlu-chay and Hakari-chay were utilized for irrigation.[4]

History[]

The territory of the uyezd had previously formed a part of the Karabakh Khanate until 1813, when according to Gulistan Treaty it was annexed into the Russian Empire as part of the Karabakh province. In 1840, the province was transformed into Shusha Uyezd and in 1873 the southern part of Shusha Uyezd was detached and established as the separate Jabrail Uyezd.[4] The administrative center was Jabrail, which was used as a customs office on the border with Persian Empire which the district bordered.[4]

In 1905, the Jabrail Uyezd was officially renamed to the Karyagino Uyezd (Russian: Карягинский уезд) as its center was transferred to the town of Karyagino (Fizuli), which was renamed from its original Karabulak in honor of Colonel Pavel Karyagin, a distinguished hero of the Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774) and the Russo-Persian War (1804-1813).

After the dissolution of the Russian Empire and the formation of the independent Transcaucasian republics, including the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918, the western mountainous districts of the Elisabethpol Governorate including the Shusha, Zangezur, Jebrail, Jevanshir, Kazakh and Elisabethpol Uyezds became subject to intense territorial disputes between Armenia and Azerbaijan throughout 1918-1920, both of whom included these areas in their territorial pretensions that they presented in memorandums to the Paris Peace Conference.

Since the collapse of Russian authority in the Transcaucasus, the mountainous portion of the uyezd which was overwhelmingly Armenian was governed by the de-facto Karabakh Council which vehemently rejected Ottoman and Azerbaijani attempts to subordinate the region. However, following the arrival of British forces in Transcaucasia, the Karabakh Council reluctantly submitted to provisional Azerbaijani rule through the Governor-Generalship of Karabakh, led by Dr. Khosrov bey Sultanov, due to the exerted British pressure on the council in August 1919.

After the establishment of Soviet rule in Azerbaijan, the town Karabulag which was designated as the new capital of the district was renamed to Sardar,[5] then to Karyagino and finally to Fizuli in 1959, as the capital of Fizuli Rayon.[6]

In the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, The area of the Fizuli Rayon was occupied in August 1993 by ethnic Armenian forces of the de-facto Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, however, the area was recaptured by Azerbaijani armed forces during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war and reincorporated into the contemporary Republic of Azerbaijan.

Demographics[]

Russian Imperial Census of 1897[]

According to census held in 1897, the population of uyezd was 66,360, of which 49,189 were Turko-Tatars (i.e. Azerbaijanis), 15,746 were Armenians, 398 - Kurds, 893 - Russians and other minorities.[7] According to Soviet census from 1926, the population rose to 75,371 with of which 71,725 were Turks (i.e. Azerbaijanis), 625 - Armenians, 1,089 - Russians, 520 - Persians.[5] There were 178 settlements. The population was engaged primarily in agricultural farming, gardening, sericulture. According to statistical data from 1891, there were 37,000 of great and 108,000 of small cattle.[4]

Caucasian Calendar of 1917[]

The 1917 Caucasian Calendar which produced statistics of 1916 indicates 89,584 residents in the Jebrail Uyezd, including 44,493 men and 45,091 women, 86,197 of whom were the permanent population, and 3,387 were temporary residents. The statistics indicated Azerbaijanis to be the overwhelming majority of the population of the district, with ethnic Armenians and Russians as sizeable minorities:[8]

Area Russians Other

Europeans

Georgians Armenians Kurds Other Asian Nationalities Jews TOTAL
Orthodox Sectarian Shia Muslim Sunni Muslim
Jebrail Uyezd 1,601 482 104 9 21,755 45 44,345 21,242 1 89,584
1.8% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 24.3% 0.0% 49.5% 23.7% 0.0% 100.0%

References[]

  1. ^ Мильман А. Ш. Политический строй Азербайджана в XIX — начале XX веков (административный аппарат и суд, формы и методы колониального управления). — Баку, 1966, с. 157
  2. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Elisavetpol (government)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 280; see final three lines. The government is divided into eight districts, Elisavetpol, Aresh, Jebrail, Jevanshir, Kazakh, Nukha, Shusha and Zangezur.
  3. ^ "Административно-территориальные реформы на Кавказе в середине и во второй половине XIX века" [Administrative-territorial reforms in Caucasus in middle and second half of 19th century]. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
  4. ^ a b c d "Большой энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона. Джебраиль" [Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedia Dictionary. Jabrayil.]. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
  5. ^ a b "ДЖЕБРАИЛЬСКИЙ УЕЗД (1926 г.)" [Jabrayil Uyezd (1926)]. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
  6. ^ "Энциклопедический словарь Ф.А. Брокгауза и И.А. Ефрона. Карягино" [Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedia Dictionary. Karyagino]. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
  7. ^ "Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку и уездам Российской Империи кроме губерний Европейской России" [First All Russian Imperial Census of 1897. Population split according to languages spoken; uyezds of Russian empire except for governorates in European part of empire]. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
  8. ^ Кавказский календарь .... на 1917 год (in Russian). pp. 355–358.

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