The Dagestan ''Oblast'' was a province (''

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'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the

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. It roughly corresponded to most of present-day southeastern

Dagestan Dagestan ( ; ; ), officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea. It is located north of the Greater Caucasus, and is a part of the North Caucasian Fede ...

within the

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. The Dagestan ''oblast'' was created in 1860 out of the territories of the former Caucasian Imamate, bordering the

Terek Oblast The Terek Oblast was a province (''oblast'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917), Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, roughly corresponding to the central part of Russia's North Caucasian Federal District. Тhe ''оblast'' was created ...

to the north, the

Tiflis Governorate Tiflis Governorate was a province ('' guberniya'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire with its administrative centre in Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi). In 1897, it constituted in area and had a population of 1,051,032 inhabitants. ...

and Zakatal Okrug to the west, the Elizavetpol Governorate to the south, and Baku Governorate to the east. The administrative center of the ''oblast'' was Temir-Khan-Shura (present-day

Buynaksk Buynaksk (; ; ; ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located at the foothills of the Greater Caucasus on the Shura-Ozen River, southwest of the republic's capital city, capital Makhachkala. P ...

Administrative divisions

The districts (''

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s'') of the Dagestan ''oblast'' in 1917 were as follows: Bold line denotes the largest city.

Demographics

Russian Empire Census

According to the Russian Empire Census, the Dagestan ''oblast'' had a population of 571,154 on , including 283,279 men and 287,875 women. The plurality of the population indicated Avar-Andean to be their mother tongue, with significant Dargin, Kyurin, Kazi-Kumukh, Kumyk, and Tatar speaking minorities. Linguistic composition of uezds in the Dagestan Oblast in 1897

''Kavkazskiy kalendar''

According to the 1917 publication of '' Kavkazskiy kalendar'', the Dagestan ''oblast'' had a population of 713,342 on , including 369,737 men and 343,605 women, 659,976 of whom were the permanent population, and 53,366 were temporary residents:

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* * * * * Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917) Oblasts of the Russian Empire History of Dagestan States and territories established in 1860 States and territories disestablished in 1921 1860 establishments in the Russian Empire 1921 disestablishments in Russia Long stubs with short prose {{Russia-geo-stub