Samarkand Oblast
| Samarkand Oblast Самаркандская область Samarkandskaya oblast' | |||||||||
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| Oblast of Russia | |||||||||
| 1868–1917 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Samarkand | ||||||||
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• Established | 1868 | ||||||||
| 1917 | |||||||||
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| Today part of |  Uzbekistan Tajikistan | ||||||||
The Samarkand Oblast (Template:Lang-ru) was an oblast (province) of the Russian Empire between 1868 and 1924. It roughly corresponded to most of present-day central Uzbekistan and northwestern Tajikistan. It was created out of the northeastern part of Emirate of Bukhara. It consisted of the uyezds of Samarkand (incl. cities Samarkand and Pendzhikent), Dzhizak (incl. city Dzhizak), Katta-Kurgan (incl. city Katta-Kurgan) and Khodzhent (incl. cities Khodzhent and Uratyube).[1]
Demographics
As of 1897, 860,021 people populated the oblast. Uzbeks constituted the majority of the population. Significant minorities consisted of Tajiks and Kazakhs. Total Turkic speaking were 609,204 (70,8%).
Ethnic groups in 1897[2]
| TOTAL | 860,021 | 100% |
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| Uzbeks | 507,587 | 59% |
| Tajiks | 230,384 | 26.8% |
| Kazakhs | 63,091 | 7.3% |
| Uyghurs | 19,993 | 2.3% |
| Turkic Sarts | 18,073 | 2.1% |
| Russians | 12,485 | 1.5% |
| Jews | 1,312 | 0.2% |