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[[Image:Ilin 186x Karta Syr Darinskoj oblast 72.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Map of the Syr-Darya Oblast in 1872]]
'''Syr-Darya Oblast''' ({{lang-ru|Сырдарьинская область}}; 1867–1897) was one of the [[oblasts]] of the [[Russian Empire]] was part of [[Russian Turkistan]]. Its center was [[Tashkent]].

==History==

It was founded after annexing northwestern part of [[Khanate of Kokand]], Chimkent (from [[Emirate of Bukhara]]) and northwestern part of [[Khanate of Khiva]] (for Amu Darya Okrug at present [[Karakalpakstan]]) in 1867.

==Geography==

It bordered with [[Turgay Oblast (Russian Empire)|Turgay Oblast]], [[Akmola Oblast]] (Its center was [[Omsk]]), [[Semirechye Oblast]], [[Samarkand Oblast]], [[Fergana Oblast]] (till 1876 as [[Khanate of Kokand]] before annexing to Russia), and semi-independent states of [[Khanate of Khiva]] and [[Emirate of Bukhara]].

The area of 504,700 km ² (443,442 sq. m. Miles). The greatest stretch of longitude - about 1173 kilometers (1100 miles) in width is about - 747 km (700 miles).

Syr-Darya region occupied by about 70% of the total area [[Turkestan]], and about 25% of the [[Russian Turkistan|Turkestan province]].

==Administrative division==

Syr-Darya Oblast was originally divided into six ''[[uyezd]]s'':

*[[Taraz|Aulie-Ata]] (Aulie-Ata was Russian render of "Evliya Ata")
*[[Kazalinsk]]
*[[Kyzylorda|Perovsk]]
*[[Tashkent]]
*[[Shimkent|Chimkent]]
*[[Amu Darya Okrug]] (Its center was [[To‘rtko‘l|Petroaleksandrovsk]])

==Demographics==

According to the [[Russian Empire Census|1897 census]], the total population was 1,478,398 inhabitants (803,411 men and 674,987 women), including the cities of 205,596. With the exception of the regional city of [[Tashkent]] as having 155,673 residents (the most populous city in [[Russian Central Asia]]) in the Syr-Darya region of large cities do not.

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

{| class="wikitable"
! Uyezd
! [[Kazakhs]]
! [[Sart|Sarts]]
! [[Karakalpaks]]
! [[Uzbeks]]
! [[Russians]]
! [[Tajiks]]
! [[Ukrainians]]
! [[Other Turkic People]]
|-
! TOTAL
! 64,4%
! 9,8%
! 6,3%
! 4,3%
! 2,2%
! ...
! ...
! 10,7%
|-
| [[Aiule-Ata Uyezd|Aiule-Ata]]
| 90,9%
| 0,5%
| ...
| 3,1%
| 1,9%
| ...
| 1,9%
| ...
|-
| [[Kazalinsk Uyezd|Kazalinsk]]
| 96,7%
| 0,4%
| ...
| 0,03%
| 2,0%
| ...
| ...
| ...
|-
| [[Perovskiy Uyezd|Perovsk]]
| 97,5%
| 1,1%
| ...
| ...
| ...
| ...
| ...
| ...
|-
| [[Tashkent Uyezd|Tashkent]]
| 36,4%
| 24,3%
| ...
| 0,11%
| 3,9%
| 1,0%
| 0,65%
| 31,8%
|-
| [[Chimkent Uyezd|Chimkent]]
| 78,8%
| 11,2%
| ...
| 7,3%
| ...
| ...
| 1,5%
| ...
|-
| [[Amu Darya Okrug|Petroaleksandrovsk]]
| 24,2%
| 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 (96.4%) consists of Muslims.

Today, the territory of the former Syr-Darya Oblast is in eastern [[Uzbekistan]] and southeastern of [[Kazakhstan]].

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Sources==
* [http://www.genealogia.ru/projects/maps/maps/map_turkistan_jpg.htm Syr Darya region on the map of Turkestan (the end of the 19th and early 20th century), 1.25 MB]
* [http://oldbooks.ax3.net/BookLibrary/93000-Syir-Darinskaya-obl.html Library Tsarskoye Selo, a book on the history of the Syrdarya Region, PDF]

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