Zangezur uezd
Zangezur uezd
Зангезурскій уѣздъ | |
|---|---|
Location in the Elizavetpol Governorate | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
| Governorate | Elizavetpol |
| Established | 1868 |
| Abolished | 1921 |
| Capital | Gerusy (present-day Goris) |
| Area | |
• Total | 7,673.86 km2 (2,962.89 sq mi) |
| Population (1916) | |
• Total | 226,398 |
| • Density | 30/km2 (76/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 0.97% |
| • Rural | 99.03% |
The Zangezur uezd was a county (uezd) of the Elizavetpol Governorate of the Russian Empire with its administrative center in Gerusy (present-day Goris) from 1868 until its formal abolition and partition between the Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan in 1921. The area of the Zangezur uezd corresponded to most of the contemporary Syunik province of Armenia, and Lachin, Gubadly, Zangilan, and the westernmost parts of Shusha districts of Azerbaijan.