Syr-Darya Oblast

Syr-Darya Oblast Сырдарьинская область
Oblast of Russia
1867–1917
Flag Coat of arms
Capital	Tashkent
History
• Established	1867
• Russian Revolution	1917
Preceded by Succeeded by Khanate of Khiva Emirate of Bukhara Khanate of Kokand Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Today part of	Uzbekistan Kazakhstan

Syr-Darya Oblast in 1900 (in orange)

Syr-Darya Oblast (Template:Lang-ru) was one of the oblasts of the Russian Empire was part of Russian Turkestan. Its center was Tashkent.

History

It was founded after annexing northwestern part of Khanate of Kokand, Chimkent (from Emirate of Bukhara) and northwestern part of Khanate of Khiva (for Amu Darya Okrug at present Karakalpakstan) in 1867.

On April 30, 1918, the region became a part of Turkestan ASSR. On October 27, 1924 as a result of the national-territorial reorganisation of Central Asia, most of the Syr-Darya region was transferred to the Kyrgyz (Cossack) ASSR, the remaining smaller part (Tashkent County) became a part of the Uzbek SSR of the Soviet Union.

Geography

It bordered with Turgay Oblast, Akmola Oblast (Its center was Omsk), Semirechye Oblast, Samarkand Oblast, Fergana Oblast (till 1876 as Khanate of Kokand before annexing to Russia), and semi-independent states of Khanate of Khiva and Emirate of Bukhara.

The area of 504,700 km ² (443,442 sq. m. Miles). The greatest stretch of longitude - about 1173 kilometers (1100 miles) in width is about - 747 km (700 miles).

Syr-Darya region occupied by about 70% of the total area Turkestan, and about 25% of the Turkestan province.

Administrative division

Syr-Darya Oblast was originally divided into six uyezds:

• Aulie-Ata (Aulie-Ata was Russian render of "Evliya Ata")
• Kazalinsk
• Perovsk
• Tashkent
• Chimkent
• Amu Darya Okrug (Its center was Petroaleksandrovsk)

Demographics

According to the 1897 census, the total population was 1,478,398 inhabitants (803,411 men and 674,987 women), including the cities of 205,596. With the exception of the regional city of Tashkent as having 155,673 residents (the most populous city in Russian Central Asia) in the Syr-Darya region of large cities do not.

Ethnic groups in 1897

Uyezd	Kazakhs	Sarts	Karakalpaks	Uzbeks	Russians	Tajiks	Ukrainians	Other Turkic People
TOTAL	64,4%	9,8%	6,3%	4,3%	2,2%	...	...	10,7%
Aiule-Ata	90,9%	0,5%	...	3,1%	1,9%	...	1,9%	...
Kazalinsk	96,7%	0,4%	...	0,03%	2,0%	...	...	...
Perovsk	97,5%	1,1%	...	...	...	...	...	...
Tashkent	36,4%	24,3%	...	0,11%	3,9%	1,0%	0,65%	31,8%
Chimkent	78,8%	11,2%	...	7,3%	...	...	1,5%	...
Petroaleksandrovsk	24,2%	0,03%	47,9%	17,7%	1,6%	...	...	7,1%

With the exception of Russian - and some Orthodox Old Believers and other Europeans, Christians and Jews, the main bulk of the population (96.4%) consists of Muslims.

Today, the territory of the former Syr-Darya Oblast is in eastern Uzbekistan and southeastern of Kazakhstan.

Sources

• Syr Darya region on the map of Turkestan (the end of the 19th and early 20th century), 1.25 MB
• Library Tsarskoye Selo, a book on the history of the Syrdarya Region, PDF