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Tiraspol uezd

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Tiraspol uezd

| native_name = Тираспольскій уѣздъ

| native_name_lang = ru

| settlement_type = Uezd

| image_shield = Coat of Arms of Kherson Governorate 1878.svg

| image_map = Kherson Governorate Tiraspolsky uezd.svg

| mapsize = 225px

| map_caption = Location in the Kherson Governorate

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Russian Empire

| subdivision_type1 = Governorate

| subdivision_name1 = Kherson

| established_title = Established

| established_date = 1803

| extinct_title = Abolished

| extinct_date = 1923

| seat_type = Capital

| seat = Tiraspol

| area_total_km2 = 7228.97

| population_as_of = 1897

| population_total = 206,568

| population_density_km2 = auto

| population_urban = 21.37%

| population_rural = 78.63%

| total_type = Total

}}

The Tiraspol uezd{{efn|{{bulleted list|{{Langx|ru|Тира́спольскій уѣ́здъ|translit=Tiráspolʼskiy uyézd|label=Russian}}|{{Langx|uk|Тира́спольський пові́т|Tyráspolʼsʼkyi povít}}|{{Langx|ro-Cyrl|label=Moldovan Cyrillic|Цинутул Тираспол|Ținutul Tiraspol}}}}}} was a county (uezd) of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire. The uezd bordered the Balta uezd of the Podolia Governorate to the north, the Ananev uezd to the east, the Odessa uezd to the south, and the Akkerman and Bendery uezd of the Bessarabia Governorate to the west. The administrative centre of the county was Tiraspol. The area of the Tiraspol uezd corresponded to most of Odesa Oblast and the breakaway territory of Transnistria, which is a part of Moldova.

Administrative divisions

The subcounties (volosts) of the Tiraspol uezd in 1912 were as follows:{{Cite book |url=https://www.prlib.ru/item/404525https://www.prlib.ru/item/404525 |publisher=Kiev: Izd-vo T-va L. M. Fish |script-title=ru:Волостныя, станичныя, сельския, гминныя правления и управления, а также полицейские станы всей России с обозначением места их нахождения |trans-title=Volostny, stanichnaya, rural, communes of government and administration, as well as police camps throughout Russia with the designation of their location |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221211143849/https://www.prlib.ru/item/404525 |archive-date=2022-12-11 |year=1913 |page=191 }}

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NameName in RussianCapital
Glikstal volostГликстальская волостьGlikstal
Gofnungstal volostГофнунгстальская волостьTsebrikova
Demidovka volostДемидовская волостьDemidovka
Dubovoe volostДубовская волостьDubovoe
Evgenievka volostЕвгеніевская волостьEvgenievka
Zakharevka volostЗахарьевская волостьZakharevka
Kassel volostКассельская волостьKassel
Katarzhina volostКатаржинская волостьKatarzhina
Korotkoe volostКоротнянская волостьKorotkoe
Lunga volostЛунговская волостьLunga
Malaeshty 1-oe volostМалаештская 1-ая волостьMalaeshty 1-oe
Malaeshty 2-oe volostМалаештская 2-ая волостьMalaeshty 2-oe
Maligonova volostМалигоновская волостьMaligonova
Novo-Petrovka volostНово-Петровская волостьMikhailovka
Parkany volostПарканская волостьParkany
Petroverovka volostПетровѣровская волостьPetroverovka
Ploskaya volostПлосковская волостьPloskaya
Ponyatovka volostПонятовская волостьPonyatovka
Rossiyanka volostРоссіяновская волостьRossiyanka
Slobodzeya volostСлободзейская волостьSlobodzeya
Tashlyk volostТашлыкская волостьTashlyk

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census on {{OldStyleDate|28 January|1897|15 January}}, the Tiraspol uezd had a population of 240,145, including 123,218 men and 116,927 women. The majority of the population indicated Little Russian{{efn|name=Russians|Prior to 1918, the Imperial Russian government classified Russians as the Great Russians, Ukrainians as the Little Russians, and Belarusians as the White Russians. After the creation of the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918, the Little Russians identified themselves as "Ukrainian".{{Cite book |title=Kiev: A Portrait, 1800–1917 |last=Hamm |first=Michael F. |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-4008-5151-5 |pages=83}} Also, the Belarusian Democratic Republic which the White Russians identified themselves as "Belarusian".{{Cite book |title=Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction |last=Fortson IV |first=Benjamin W. |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-4443-5968-8 |pages=429 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bSxHgej4tKMC&pg=PA429}}}} to be their mother tongue, with significant Romanian, Great Russian, Jewish, and German speaking minorities.{{Cite web|url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=1670|title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей.|website=www.demoscope.ru|access-date=2019-12-20}}

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|+ Linguistic composition of the Tiraspol uezd in 1897

LanguageNative speakersPercentage
Ukrainian languagealign="right" |80,049align="right" |33.33
Romanianalign="right" |59,794align="right" |24.90
Great Russian{{efn|name=Russians}}align="right" |40,703align="right" |16.95
Jewishalign="right" |23,811align="right" |9.92
Germanalign="right" |23,527align="right" |9.80
Bulgarianalign="right" |8,801align="right" |3.66
Polishalign="right" |1,907align="right" |0.79
Armenianalign="right" |475align="right" |0.20
White Russian{{efn|name=Russians}}align="right" |352align="right" |0.15
Gipsyalign="right" |261align="right" |0.11
Tataralign="right" |138align="right" |0.06
Greekalign="right" |106align="right" |0.04
Czechalign="right" |76align="right" |0.03
Mordovianalign="right" |34align="right" |0.01
Italianalign="right" |18align="right" |0.01
Latvianalign="right" |15align="right" |0.01
Frenchalign="right" |13align="right" |0.01
South Slavicalign="right" |11align="right" |0.00
Lithuanianalign="right" |10align="right" |0.00
Estonianalign="right" |9align="right" |0.00
Georgianalign="right" |3align="right" |0.00
Turkishalign="right" |3align="right" |0.00
Swedishalign="right" |2align="right" |0.00
Englishalign="right" |1align="right" |0.00
Othersalign="right" |66align="right" |0.03
Total240,145100.00

Notes

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References

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Category:Uezds of Kherson Governorate

Category:Kherson Governorate