The Etchmiadzin uezd[a] was a county (uezd) of the Erivan Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The uezd bordered the Alexandropol uezd to the north, the Nor Bayazet uezd to the east, Erivan uezd to the north, the Surmalu uezd to the south, and the Kars Oblast to the west. It included all of the Armavir Province and most of the Aragatsotn Province of present-day Armenia. The administrative centre of the county was Vagorshapat (Vagharshapat), also referred to as Etchmiadzin—the administrative capital of the Armenian Apostolic Church.[2]
The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Etchmiadzin uezd in 1913 were as follows:[3]
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Etchmiadzin uezd had a population of 124,237 on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 65,072 men and 59,165 women. The majority of the population indicated Armenian to be their mother tongue, with significant Tatar[b] and Kurdish speaking minorities.[6]
Según la publicación de 1917 del Kavkazskiy kalendar , el uezd de Echmiadzin tenía una población de 167.786 habitantes el 14 de enero de 1916, incluidos 86.716 hombres y 81.070 mujeres, de los cuales 148.794 eran población permanente y 18.992 eran residentes temporales. Las estadísticas indicaban una población abrumadoramente armenia con importantes minorías musulmanas chiítas y kurdas : [7]
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