Amasia District
Amasia District
Ամասիայի շրջան | |
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![]() The Amasia District in Armenia | |
Country | |
Established | 9 September 1930 |
Abolished | 11 April 1995 |
Capital | Amasia |
Area | |
• Total | 534 km2 (206 sq mi) |
Population (1989) | |
• Total | 6,342 |
• Density | 12/km2 (31/sq mi) |
The Amasia District (Armenian: Ամասիայի շրջան) was a raion (district) of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1930 and later in 1991 of the Republic of Armenia until its disestablishment in 1995. The Amasia District today constitutes a northwestern part of the Shirak Province (marz) and bordered the Kars Province of the Republic of Turkey to the west, and the Javakheti region of Georgia to the north. Its administrative center was the town Amasia.
History
The Amasia District was formed on the territory of the Armenian SSR in 1930, originally part of the Leninakan uezd (previously Alexandropol uezd).[1] Amasia is the only territory of the former Kars Oblast retained by Armenia as the rest of it was annexed by Turkey through the Treaty of Kars.[2]
The district and its capital were originally known as Aghbaba (Armenian: Աղբաբա) before being renamed Amasia in the 1930s.[3]
Shortly after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Armenia consolidated the Amasia, Ani, Artik, Akhuryan, and Ashotsk districts into the larger Shirak Province.[4]
Demographics
Year | Armenians | Azerbaijanis[a] | Others | TOTAL | |||
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1831 | 1,420 | 29.2% | 3,451 | 70.8% | 4,871 | ||
1873 | 8,700 | 100.0% | 8,700 | ||||
1886 | 11,230 | 100.0% | 11,230 | ||||
1897 | 13,497 | 56.0% | 10,359 | 43.0% | 262 | 1.1% | 24,118 |
1908 | 28,374 | ||||||
1914[b] | 34,517 | ||||||
1914[c] | 32,361 | ||||||
1916 | 33,199 | ||||||
1919 | 33,318 | ||||||
1922 | 11,873 | 65.8% | 6,131 | 34.0% | 27 | 0.1% | 18,031 |
1926 | 13,664 | 62.9% | 31 | 0.1% | 8,034[d] | 37.0% | 21,729 |
1931 | 19,084 | 67.8% | 7,889 | 28.0% | 1,160 | 4.1% | 28,133 |
1939[6] | 4,466 | 30.0% | 10,140 | 68.0% | 305 | 2.0% | 14,911 |
1959[7] | 9,431[8] | 71.9% | 12,794 | ||||
1970[9] | 15,002[8] | 80.9% | 18,547 | ||||
1979[10] | 17,109[8] | 81.5% | 20,581 | ||||
1989[11] | 6,342 | ||||||
2001[12] | 7,141 | ||||||
2011[13] | 6,306 |
Villages
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See also
Notes
- ^ Includes "Muslims" in 1831 and 1897; Classified as "Tatars" before 1918; Classified as "Turks" or "Turko-Tatars" after 1918; Known as Azerbaijanis after 1936.
- ^ According to the Caucasian Calendar for 1915.
- ^ According to the archived population.
- ^ In the 1926 Soviet census, Karapapakhs were distinguished from Turko-Tatars (later known as Azerbaijanis).
References
- ^ Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014), Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus, New Haven and London, p. 84, ISBN 978-0-300-15308-8, OCLC 884858065, retrieved 2021-12-25
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