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Don Host Oblast[a] was a province (oblast) of the Russian Empire which consisted of the territory of the Don Cossacks, coinciding approximately with present-day Rostov Oblast in Russia. Its administrative center was Cherkassk, and later Novocherkassk.[2]
Don Host Oblast Область Войска Донского | |||||||||||
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Oblast of the Russian Empire | |||||||||||
1786-1920 | |||||||||||
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Capital | Novocherkassk | ||||||||||
Area | |||||||||||
• | 162,888.57 km2 (62,891.63 sq mi) | ||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||
• | 1,712,898 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1786 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1920 | ||||||||||
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Today part of | Russia |
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It comprised the areas where the Don Cossack Host settled in the Russian Empire. From 1786, the territory was officially named Don Host Land (Russian: Земля Войска Донского, romanized: Zemlya Voyska Donskogo), renamed Don Host Oblast in 1870.[3]
During 1914, the oblast, with an area of 164,000 km², had about 3.9 million inhabitants.[1] Of these, 55% (2.1 million) were Cossacks in possession of all the land; the remaining 45% of the population being townsfolk and agricultural guest labourers from other parts of Russia.[citation needed]
It was abolished in 1920; from the major part of it the Don Oblast of the RSFSR was created, which was incorporated into the North Caucasus Krai in 1924.[3]
Administrative divisions
editThe districts (okrugs) of the Don Host Oblast in 1897 were as follows:
District | Capital | Area | Population (1897 census) | |
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Transliteration name | Russian Cyrillic | |||
Donetsky | Донецкій | Kamenskaya | 24,659.3 square versts (28,063.8 km2; 10,835.5 sq mi) | 455,819 |
1st Don | 1-й Донской | Konstantinovskaya | 15,415.9 square versts (17,544.3 km2; 6,773.9 sq mi) | 271,790 |
2nd Don | 2-й Донской | Nizhne-Chirskaya | 23,219.7 square versts (26,425.5 km2; 10,202.9 sq mi) | 239,055 |
Rostovsky | Ростовскій | Rostov-on-Don | 6,012 square versts (6,842 km2; 2,642 sq mi) | 369,732 |
Salsky | Сальскій | Velikoknyazheskaya | 18,961.0 square versts (21,578.8 km2; 8,331.6 sq mi) | 76,297 |
Taganrogsky | Таганрогскій | Taganrog | 12,229.4 square versts (13,917.8 km2; 5,373.7 sq mi) | 412,995 |
Ust-Medveditsky | Усть-Медведицкій | Ust-Medveditskaya | 18,082.6 square versts (20,579.1 km2; 7,945.6 sq mi) | 246,830 |
Khopersky | Хоперскій | Uryupinskaya | 15,861.4 square versts (18,051.3 km2; 6,969.6 sq mi) | 251,498 |
Cherkassky | Черкасскій | Novocherkassk | 9,750.3 square versts (11,096.4 km2; 4,284.4 sq mi) | 240,222 |
Demography
editLanguage
editLanguage | Number | percentage (%) | males | females |
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Russian | 1,712,898 | 66.8 | 858,601 | 854,297 |
Ukrainian | 719,655 | 28.0 | 366,482 | 353,173 |
German | 34,855 | 1.36 | 17,775 | 17,080 |
Kalmyk | 32,283 | 1.25 | 16,689 | 15,594 |
Armenian | 27,234 | 1.06 | 13,971 | 13,263 |
Jewish | 15,121 | 0.59 | 7,448 | 7,673 |
Belarusian | 9,158 | 0.35 | 5,033 | 4,125 |
Polish | 3,316 | 0.13 | 1,971 | 1,345 |
Tatar | 2,978 | 0.11 | 2,122 | 856 |
Greek | 2,255 | 0.08 | 1,486 | 769 |
Gypsy | 1,267 | 0.05 | 650 | 617 |
Other | 3218 | 0.12 | 2092 | 1126 |
Total | 2,564,238 | 100.0 | 1,294,320 | 1,269,918 |
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Донщина / А. І. Жуковський // Енциклопедія Сучасної України [Електронний ресурс] / Редкол. : І. М. Дзюба, А. І. Жуковський, М. Г. Железняк [та ін.] ; НАН України, НТШ. – К. : Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України, 2008.
- ^ Smele, Jon (2015). Historical dictionary of the Russian civil wars, 1916-1926. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 334. ISBN 9781442252813.
- ^ a b "Область Войска Донского". Soviet Historical Encyclopedia. pp. 395–396.
- ^ "Annex. Statistical indicators reference". Demoscope Weekly. Retrieved 2024-03-06.