Terek Oblast

The Terek Oblast (Russian Терская область ) with the capital of Vladikavkaz was an administrative unit of the Russian Empire in the North Caucasus, along the river Terek. It was in 1860 by a decree of Tsar Alexander.II. founded.

It included the territories of present-day Russian Federation subjects Kabardino -Balkaria, Ingushetia, North Ossetia -Alania and Chechnya, and parts of Dagestan and the Stavropol region.

According to the results of the first all-Russian census of 1897, the Oblast had a population of 932 341 inhabitants on 72,824 km ² (12 per km ²). Of these, about 335,000 Russians (including the Terek Cossacks ), 240,000 Chechens and Ingush, Ossetians 80,000, 70,000 Circassians, 40,000 Kumüken, 25,000 Armenians, 8,000 Jews and 5,500 German.

Administrative divisions

By 1899 the Oblast was divided into five okrugs and two Otdels ( " departments " as the largely populated by Cossacks administrative units of the second level were called):

Notes:

1899 Otdel Mozdok was spun, and the Okrug Pyatigorsk converted into a Otdel. 1905 two more okrugs were created with administrative centers in Nazran and Vedeno.