Don Host Oblast

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]

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

The districts (okrugs) of the Don Host Oblast in 1897 were as follows:

Demography

Language

Population by mother tongue according to the Imperial census of 1897.^[1]^[4]

Notes

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- Russian: Область Войска Донского, romanized: Oblast Voyska Donskogo
- Ukrainian: Область Війська Донського, romanized: Oblast Viiska Donskoho, also known as Донщина, Donshchyna^[1]

References

^ 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.

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