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Odessa uezd
Uezd in Kherson, Russian Empire From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Odessa uezd[a] was a county (uezd) of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire. The uezd bordered the Tiraspol and Ananev uezds to the north, the Elisavetgrad uezd to the northeast, the Kherson uezd to the east, the Black Sea to the south, and the Akkerman uezd of the Bessarabia Governorate to the west. The administrative centre of the county was Odessa (Odesa).
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Administrative divisions
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The subcounties (volosts) of the Odessa uezd in 1912 were as follows:[1]
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Demographics
At the time of the Russian Empire Census on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, the Odessa uezd had a population of 610,042. including 322,899 men and 287,143 women. The majority of the population indicated Great Russian[b] to be their mother tongue, with significant Jewish and Little Russian speaking minorities.[4]
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Notes
- 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".[2] Also, the Belarusian Democratic Republic which the White Russians identified themselves as "Belarusian".[3]
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