Amasia District

The Amasia District (Armenian: Ամասիայի շրջան) was a raion (district) of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1930 and later in 1991 of the Republic of Armenia until its disestablishment in 1995. The Amasia District today constitutes a northwestern part of the Shirak Province (marz) and bordered the Kars Province of the Republic of Turkey to the west, and the Javakheti region of Georgia to the north. Its administrative center was the town Amasia.

Amasia District
Ամասիայի շրջան
District
The Amasia District in Armenia
The Amasia District in Armenia
Country
Armenian SSR

Armenia

Established9 September 1930
Abolished11 April 1995
CapitalAmasia
Area
 • Total534 km2 (206 sq mi)
Population
 (1989)
 • Total6,342
 • Density12/km2 (31/sq mi)

History

The Amasia District was formed on the territory of the Armenian SSR in 1930, originally part of the Leninakan uezd (previously Alexandropol uezd).[1] Amasia is the only territory of the former Kars Oblast retained by Armenia as the rest of it was annexed by Turkey through the Treaty of Kars.[2]

The district and its capital were originally known as Aghbaba (Armenian: Աղբաբա) before being renamed Amasia in the 1930s.[3]

Shortly after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Armenia consolidated the Amasia, Ani, Artik, Akhuryan, and Ashotsk districts into the larger Shirak Province.[4]

Demographics
Historical population and ethnic composition of the Amasia District[5]
Year Armenians Azerbaijanis[lower-alpha 1] Others TOTAL
1831 1,420 29.2% 3,451 70.8% 4,871
1873 8,700 100.0% 8,700
1886 11,230 100.0% 11,230
1897 13,497 56.0% 10,359 43.0% 262 1.1% 24,118
1908 28,374
1914[lower-alpha 2] 34,517
1914[lower-alpha 3] 32,361
1916 33,199
1919 33,318
1922 11,873 65.8% 6,131 34.0% 27 0.1% 18,031
1926 13,664 62.9% 31 0.1% 8,034[lower-alpha 4] 37.0% 21,729
1931 19,084 67.8% 7,889 28.0% 1,160 4.1% 28,133
1939[6] 4,466 30.0% 10,140 68.0% 305 2.0% 14,911
1959[7] 9,431[8] 71.9% 12,794
1970[9] 15,002[8] 80.9% 18,547
1979[10] 17,109[8] 81.5% 20,581
1989[11] 6,342
2001[12] 7,141
2011[13] 6,306

Villages

See also

Notes
  1. Includes "Muslims" in 1831 and 1897; Classified as "Tatars" before 1918; Classified as "Turks" or "Turko-Tatars" after 1918; Known as Azerbaijanis after 1936.
  2. According to the Caucasian Calendar for 1915.
  3. According to the archived population.
  4. In the 1926 Soviet census, Karapapakhs were distinguished from Turko-Tatars (later known as Azerbaijanis).

References
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  2. Hakobyan, Tatul (19 July 2017). "Կարսից մի կտոր" [A piece of Kars]. CivilNet (in Armenian). Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  3. Hakobyan, Tatul (26 March 2022). "Ամասիա-Աշոցքի (Աղբաբա) շրջանի գյուղերը 1831 թվականին" [Villages of Amasia-Ashotsk (Aghbaba) region in 1831]. ANI Armenian Research Center (in Armenian). Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  4. "Legislation: National Assemly of RA". www.parliament.am. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  5. Korkotyan, Zaven (1932). Խորհրդային Հայաստանի բնակչությունը վերջին հարյուրամյակում (1831-1931) [The population of Soviet Armenia in the last century (1831–1931)] (PDF) (in Armenian). Yerevan: Pethrat. p. 167. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2022.
  6. "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1939 года". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
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  8. Broers, Laurence (25 July 2019). Armenia and Azerbaijan: Anatomy of a Rivalry. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 136. ISBN 9781474450546.
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  11. "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  12. "Figures of marz of Shirak / Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia". armstat.am. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  13. "ՀՀ Շիրակի մարզի ցուցանիշները / Հայաստանի Հանրապետության վիճակագրական կոմիտե". armstat.am. Retrieved 2022-05-08.

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