Nor Bayazet Uyezd

Nor Bayazet Uyezd

Новобаязетский уезд
Nor Bayazet Uyezd Новобаязетский уезд
Country	Russia
Political status	Uyezd
Region	Caucasus
Established	1849
Abolished	1918
Area
• Total	4,730 km2 (1,830 sq mi)
Population (1916)
• Total	188,859
• Density	40/km2 (100/sq mi)

The Nor Bayazet Uyezd, also known as the Novo-Bayazet Uyezd (Russian: Новобаязетский уезд; Armenian: Նոր Բայազետի գավառ) was a county of the Erivan Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It bordered the governorate's Alexandropol Uyezd to the north, the Etchmiadzin and Erivan Uyezds to the west, the Sharur-Daralayaz Uyezd to the south, and the Kazakh, Elisabethpol, and Jevanshir Uyezds of the Elisabethpol Governorate to the east. Centered on Lake Sevan, the Nor Bayazet Uyezd included most of the contemporary province of Gegharkunik and northern parts of the province of Kotayk in the Republic of Armenia. The administrative center of the uyezd was the city of Nor Bayazet (Gavar) for which the district was eponymously named.^[1]

Administrative Divisions[]

The Nor Bayazet Uyezd was split into 4 unnamed contiguous uchastoks (subcounties):

1st (Russian: 1-ий участок)
2nd (Russian: 2-ий участок)
3rd (Russian: 3-ий участок)
4th (Russian: 4-ий участок)

Demographics[]

Russian Imperial Census of 1897[]

According to the 1897 Russian Empire Census, the population of the district was 122,573, the majority of which were Armenians (66.4%). Minorities included Tatars (modern Azerbaijanis; 28.5%), East Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians; 2.2%), and Kurds (2.4%).^[2] The largest city in the district was Nor Bayazet, which had a total population of 8,486, of which the overwhelming majority (95%) were Armenians.^[3]

Caucasian Calendar of 1917[]

The 1917 Caucasian Calendar which produced statistics of 1916 indicates 205,617 residents in the Nor Bayazet Uyezd, including 97,864 men and 90,995 women, 174,879 of whom were the permanent population, and 13,980 were temporary residents. The statistics indicated the city of Nor Bayazet and its peripheries to be overwhelmingly ethnic Armenian, with sizeable Azerbaijani, Kurdish and Russian minorities, the Azerbaijanis of which were mainly concentrated near the southeastern section of the uyezd:^[4]

Nationality	Center	Rural	TOTAL
Armenians	14,350	114,997	129,347	68.5%
Azerbaijanis	0	50,713	50,713	26.8%
Russians	83	4,842	4,925	2.6%
Kurds	238	2,726	2,964	1.6%
Yezidis	0	408	408	0.2%
Assyrians	64	38	102	0.1%
TOTAL	14,748	174,111	188,859	100.0%

References[]

^ Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014). Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus. Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 59. ISBN 9780300153088.
^ (in Russian) 1897 Census, Novobayazetsky Uyezd Demoscope Weekly
^ (in Russian) 1897 Census, Novobayazet City Demoscope Weekly
^ Кавказский календарь .... на 1917 год (in Russian). pp. 367–370.

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[1] Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014). Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus. Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 59. ISBN 9780300153088.

[2] (in Russian) 1897 Census, Novobayazetsky Uyezd Demoscope Weekly

[3] (in Russian) 1897 Census, Novobayazet City Demoscope Weekly

[:7-4] Кавказский календарь .... на 1917 год (in Russian). pp. 367–370.

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v t Administrative divisions of the Erivan Governorate
Aleksandropol Echmiadzin Erivan Nakhichevan Novo-Bayazet Ordubad Sharur-Daralagyoz Surmali
Italics indicates abolished uyezds.