Margelan Uyezd is an administrative-territorial unit of the Ferghana Region of the Turkestan Governor General . The administrative center is the city of New Margelan .
| Margelan County | |
|---|---|
| A country |  Russian empire |
| Province | Ferghana region |
| County town | New Margelan |
| Population | 201,653 (1,894) |
| Area | 14069.1 versts (1894) |
| Educated | 1876 |
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Geography
- 3 Administrative divisions
- 4 population
- 5 Economics
- 6 notes
- 7 Literature
History
The county was formed in 1876 after the accession to the Russian Empire of the Kokand Khanate and the creation of the Ferghana Region.
In connection with the renaming of the county center of the city of New Margelan in 1907, Skobelev district was renamed Skobelevsky .
Geography
Margelan district was located in the south-west of the Ferghana region.
The northern part of the county was located in the Ferghana Valley , the southern one captured the Alai Range and bordered on the Karategin Bekstvo of the Bukhara Emirate .
Administrative Division
In 1894 there were 18 volosts in the county [1] :
- Altyaryk;
- Aravan
- Assakinskaya;
- Auval;
- Ichkelik;
- Karatepe-Chaukent;
- Kokan-Kishlak;
- Kuvinskaya;
- Kulinskaya;
- Min-Tyubinskaya;
- Naiman;
- Segazinskaya;
- Fayzabad;
- Chimion;
- Sharihan;
- Yakkututskaya;
- Yaz-Yavanskaya;
- Yaukesek-Boston.
Population
In 1894, 201653 people lived in the county (excluding New and Old Margelan). The majority of the population was Sunni Muslims: Sarts , Kyrgyz , Uzbeks and Karakalpaks . The number of Orthodox Christians was 1586 people, 1740 Jews.
Economics
In the north of the county, wheat, barley, rice, millet, durra , legumes and cotton were cultivated on artificially irrigated lands. From fruit trees, pears, cherries, plums, apricots, peaches, grapes, and especially the mulberry tree used for sericulture, were common. Crops of melons, watermelons and cucumbers were of great importance.
Kyrgyz and Karakalpaks engaged in nomadic cattle breeding.
The industry was mostly artisanal.
Notes
- β Materials for a statistical description of the Ferghana region: results of land-taxation work. Vol. 2. Margelan County, 1899 (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment September 27, 2015. Archived March 4, 2016.
Literature
- Margelan Novy // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.