Demography of Zangezur county

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

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

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

1910: population – 290.170.

1913-1914: population – 209.951

1916: population – 224.197