Don Host Oblast

File:Voznesensky Metropolitan Cathedral Novocherkassk 1905.jpg

The Don Metropolitan Cathedral, Novocherkassk in 1905.

File:Земля Войска Донского на Столистовой карте 1816 года.jpg

Map of 1816

Don Host OblastTemplate:Efn was a province (oblast) of the Russian Empire which consisted of the territory of the Don Cossacks, coinciding approximately with present-day Rostov Oblast in Russia. Its administrative center was Cherkassk, and later Novocherkassk.

It comprised the areas where the Don Cossack Host settled in the Russian Empire. From 1786, the territory was officially named Don Host Land (Template:Langx), renamed Don Host Oblast in 1870.

During 1914, the oblast, with an area of 164,000 km², had about 3.9 million inhabitants. Of these, 55% (2.1 million) were Cossacks in possession of all the land; the remaining 45% of the population being townsfolk and agricultural guest labourers from other parts of Russia.

It was abolished in 1920; from the major part of it the Don Oblast of the RSFSR was created, which was incorporated into the North Caucasus Krai in 1924.

Administrative divisions

The districts (okrugs) of the Don Host Oblast in 1897 were as follows:

District		Capital	Area	Population (1897 census)
Transliteration name	Russian Cyrillic
Donetsky	Донецкій	Kamenskaya	Template:Convert	455,819
1st Don	1-й Донской	Konstantinovskaya	Template:Convert	271,790
2nd Don	2-й Донской	Nizhne-Chirskaya	Template:Convert	239,055
Rostovsky	Ростовскій	Rostov-on-Don	Template:Convert	369,732
Salsky	Сальскій	Velikoknyazheskaya	Template:Convert	76,297
Taganrogsky	Таганрогскій	Taganrog	Template:Convert	412,995
Ust-Medveditsky	Усть-Медведицкій	Ust-Medveditskaya	Template:Convert	246,830
Khopersky	Хоперскій	Uryupinskaya	Template:Convert	251,498
Cherkassky	Черкасскій	Novocherkassk	Template:Convert	240,222

Demography

Language

• Population by mother tongue according to the Imperial census of 1897.

Language	Number	percentage (%)	males	females
Russian	1,712,898	66.8	858,601	854,297
Ukrainian	719,655	28.0	366,482	353,173
German	34,855	1.36	17,775	17,080
Kalmyk	32,283	1.25	16,689	15,594
Armenian	27,234	1.06	13,971	13,263
Jewish	15,121	0.59	7,448	7,673
Belarusian	9,158	0.35	5,033	4,125
Polish	3,316	0.13	1,971	1,345
Tatar	2,978	0.11	2,122	856
Greek	2,255	0.08	1,486	769
Gypsy	1,267	0.05	650	617
Other	3218	0.12	2092	1126
Total	2,564,238	100.0	1,294,320	1,269,918