Nakhichevan
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Divisions[edit | edit source]
Nakhchivan is today subdivided into eight administrative divisions. Seven of these are raions. The capital city (şəhər) of Nakhchivan City is treated separately.
| Map ref. | Pre-Soviet name | Soviet name | Current name | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nakhichevan | Babek (Բաբեկ) | Babek (Babək) | Formerly known as Nakhchivan; renamed in 1991 |
| 3 | Kangarli (Kəngərli) | Split from Babek in March 2004 | ||
| 4 | Nakhchivan City (Naxçıvan Şəhər) | Split from Nakhchivan (Babek) in 1991 | ||
| 7 | Shahbuz (Շահբուզ), Shahaponk* | Shakhbuz (Şahbuz) | Split from Nakhchivan (Babek) during Sovietization[1] Territory roughly corresponds to the Čahuk (Չահւք) district of the historic Syunik region within the Kingdom of Armenia[2] | |
| 2 | Julfa | Julfa (Ջուլֆա), Yernjak* | Julfa (Culfa) | Also spelled Jugha or Dzhulfa. |
| 5 | Ordubad (Օրդուբադ), Goghtn* | Ordubad | Split from Julfa during Sovietization[1] | |
| 6 | ? | Ilyichevsk (Իլյիչևսկ), Sharur* | Sadarak (Sədərək) | Split from Sharur in 1990; de jure includes the Karki exclave in Armenia, which is de facto under Armenian control |
| 8 | Sharur (Şərur) | Formerly known as Bash-Norashen during its incorporation into the Soviet Union and Ilyich (after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin) from the post-Sovietization period to 1990[1] | ||
| *The single asterisked name equivalents are from the RAA website at: www.raa.am/Magazine/Activity/FR_Activity_2004_E.htm | ||||
Demographics[edit | edit source]
| Year | Armenians | % | Azeris | % | Others 1 | % | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1828[3] | 1,6322 | 44.7 | 2,0243 | 55.3 | 3,656 | ||
| 1831[4] |  13,3424
|
43.7 | 17,1383
|
56.1 | 27 | 1.2 | 30,507 |
| 1896[5] | 36,671
|
42.2 | 49,425
|
56.9 | 583
|
0.7 | 86,878 |
| 18975[6] |  34,672
|
34.4 | 64,151
|
63.7 | 1,948
|
1.9 | 100,771 |
| 1917[7][8] | 53,900
|
40 | 81,1003
|
60 | 135,000 | ||
| 1926[9] | 11,276
|
10.8 | 88,433
|
84.3 | 4,947
|
4.7 | 104,656 |
| 1939[10] | 13,350
|
10.5 | 108,529
|
85.7 | 4,817
|
126,696 | |
| 1959[10] | 9,519
|
6.7 | 127,508
|
90.2 | 4,334
|
3.1 | 141,361 |
| 1970[10] | 5,828
|
2.9 | 189,679
|
93.8 | 6,680
|
3.3 | 202,187 |
| 1979[10] | 3,406
|
1.4 | 229,968
|
95.6 | 7,085
|
2.9 | 240,459 |
| 1989[10] | 1,858
|
0.6 | 281,807
|
95.9 | 10,210
|
3.5 | 293,875 |
| 1999[11] | 17
|
0 | 350,806
|
99.6 | 3,249
|
0.9 | 354,072 |
| 2009[12] | 6
|
0 | 396,709
|
99.6 | 1,608
|
0.4 | 398,323 |
| 1 Russians, Kurds, Turks, Ukrainians, Georgians, Persians etc. 2 of those 404 (11.1%) are local and 1,228 (33.6%) are newly-settled. 3 Azeris combined with other Muslims. 4 of those 2,690 (8.7%) are local and 10,652 (34.9%) are newly-settled. 5 according to mother tongue. | |||||||
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedHewsen - ↑ Hewsen. Armenia: A Historical Atlas, p. 123.
- ↑ Alexander Griboyedov (1828) (in Russian). Рапорт А.С.Грибоедова графу И.Ф.Паскевичу. Moscow: А.С.Грибоедов. Сочинения. Москва, Художественная литература, 1988 г., сс. 611-614.
- ↑ Ivan Shopen (1852) (in Russian). Шопен И. Исторический памятник состояния Армянской области в эпоху её присоединения к Российской Империи. [Ethnic Processes in the South Cacucasus in XIX-XX centuries]. Saint Petersburg: Имп. Академия наук (Imperial Academy of Sciences).
- ↑ (Russian) Нахичевань. Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- ↑ (Russian) Демокоп Weekly Нахичеванский уезд
- ↑ (Russian) «Кавказский календарь на 1917 г.», с. 214-221
- ↑ Christopher J. Walker, ed., Armenia and Karabakh, op. cit., pp. 64-65
- ↑ {{ru icon]} НАХИЧЕВАНСКАЯ ССР (1926 г.)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 (Russian) Население Азербайджана
- ↑ The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan – Regions of Azerbaijan- Nakchivan economic district – Ethnic Structure
- ↑ Ethnic composition of Azerbaijan 2009
External links[edit | edit source]
- Silent Erasure - A Satellite Investigation of the Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan