Syr-Darya Oblast


Syr-Darya Oblast 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 and northwestern part of Khanate of Khiva 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 ASSR, the remaining smaller part became a part of the Uzbek SSR of the Soviet Union.

Geography

It bordered with Turgay Oblast, Akmola Oblast, Semirechye Oblast, Samarkand Oblast, Fergana Oblast, and semi-independent states of Khanate of Khiva and Emirate of Bukhara.
The area of 504,700 km ². The greatest stretch of longitude - about 1173 kilometers in width is about - 747 km.
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:
According to the 1897 census, the total population was 1,478,398 inhabitants, including the cities of 205,596. With the exception of the regional city of Tashkent as having 155,673 residents in the Syr-Darya region of large cities do not.

Ethnic groups in 1897http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/emp_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=877 Demoskop [Weekly - Appendix. Handbook of statistics]

UyezdKazakhsSartsKarakalpaksUzbeksRussiansTajiksUkrainiansOther Turkic People
TOTAL64,4%9,8%6,3%4,3%2,2%......10,7%
Aiule-Ata90,9%0,5%...3,1%1,9%...1,9%...
Kazalinsk96,7%0,4%...0,03%2,0%.........
Perovsk97,5%1,1%..................
Tashkent36,4%24,3%...0,11%3,9%1,0%0,65%31,8%
Chimkent78,8%11,2%...7,3%......1,5%...
Petroaleksandrovsk24,2%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 consists of Muslims.
Today, the territory of the former Syr-Darya Oblast is in eastern Uzbekistan and southeastern of Kazakhstan.