Qarabag.com provides information on the demography of Zangezur county from 1872 to 1916. Twelve official sources were used in the preparation of this material.
1872-1874: population – 88,686.
[Caucasus calendar for 1886, published by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Civil Part in the Caucasus, under the Caucasus Statistical Committee. Tiflis, 1885. Page 210]
1883-1884: population – 96.221.
[Caucasus calendar for 1886, published by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Civil Part in the Caucasus, under the Caucasus Statistical Committee. Tiflis, 1885. Page 210]
1886: population – 123.997 (men – 68.560, women – 55.437).
Armenians – 57.425
Turks (Tatars) – 37.653 (21.262 – men, 16.391 – women)
Russians – 469
Persians – 41
Tats – 1585
[Caucasus calendar for 1891, published by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Civil Part in the Caucasus, under the Caucasus Statistical Committee. Tiflis, 1890. Appendix “Data about the space and population of Transcaucasia”, p. 10;
1895 Caucasus calendar, published by order of the chief civilian part in the Caucasus at the Statistic committee of the Caucasus. Tiflis, 1894. Section V, pp. 54-55]
1889: population – 132.671
- Armenians – 63.547 (47.8%)
- Muslims – 68.310 (51.5%) (Shia – 55.966, Sunni – 12.344)
[Caucasus calendar for 1893. Tiflis, 1892. Statistical and other data on the Caucasus, pp. 24-25]
1891: population – 123.598.
Gregorian Armenians – 57.425
Shia – 54.941 (30.515 men, 24,426 women); Sunni – 10.899
Orthodox – 4
Sectarians – 465
[Caucasus calendar for 1897, published by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Civil Part in the Caucasus, under the Caucasus Statistical Committee. Tiflis, 1896. Section V, pp. 44-45]
1897: population – 137.871
Ethno-religious composition
1) Armenians – 63.622
- Gregorian Armenians – 63.617
- Muslim Armenians – 3,
- Catholic Armenians – 17,
- Armenians-Catholic – 17;
- Armenians-Orthodox – 1,
- Armenians of other religions and atheists – 1
2) Turks – 71.207
Among them 71.206 Tatars (Azerbaijanis) (71.202 Muslims, 3 Adherents of the Armenian-Gregorian church, 1 Protestant)
3) Russians – 1006
4) Poles – 18
5) Georgians – 2
6) Germans – 9
By social status
- Petty bourgeois (middle class) – 342
- Peasants – 127.972
- Nobility (tribal nobility) – 6.015
- Clergy (all confessions) – 859
Natives of other states (not of the Russian Empire)
- 239 (764 men, 475 women)
Population literacy
- Illiterate – 133.203
- Literate – 3.218
[Caucasus calendar for 1907, published by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Civil Part in the Caucasus, under the Caucasus Statistical Committee. Tiflis, 1906. Appendix III “The distribution of theTranscaucasian population by faith and mother tongue according to the census of 1897, pp. 108-109;
First general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897. published by the Central Statistical Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1904. Yelisavetpol province, pp. 2-181]
1900: population – 145.658.
[Caucasus calendar for 1904, published by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Civil Part in the Caucasus, under the Caucasus Statistical Committee. Tiflis, 1903. III section, pp. 116-117]
1905: population – 132.671
- Armenians – 66.181 (47.8%)
- Muslims – 77.443 (51.5%) (Shia – 61.215, Sunni – 16.228)
[Caucasus calendar for 1907. Tiflis, 1906. Section II, pp. 233-235].
1910: population – 290.170.
- Men – 147.216
- Women – 142.954
[Caucasus calendar for 1912. Tiflis, 1911 // Department IV (statistical department), p. 236]
1913-1914: population – 209.951
- Armenians– 89.906 (42.8%)
- Muslims – 118.216 (56.3%)
- Russians – 594
[Caucasus calendar for 1915. Tiflis, 1914. Statistical Department, pp. 218-219, 230-233]
1916: population – 224.197
- Armenians – 99.331 (44.3%)
- Muslims – 119.480 (53.3%)
- Kurds – 3.638
- Russians – 1617
[Caucasus calendar for 1917. Tiflis, 1916. Statistical Department, pp. 194-197]
