page_title: Kars Oblast
section_title: 1892
hierarchical_section_title: Kars Oblast / Demographics / 1892
caption_attribution_description: English: An 1883 map including Kars Oblast and adjacent provinces of Russian and Ottoman Empires. Russia. No. 9. Letts's popular atlas. Letts, Son &amp; Co. Limited, London. (1883) Русский: Карта 1883 года, включающая Карскую область и прилегающие провинции Российской империи и Османской Турции. Українська: Карта 1883 року, що включає Карську область і прилеглі провінції Російської імперії та Османської Туреччини
context_page_description: Kars Oblast was one of the oblasts of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire between 1878 and 1917. Its capital was the city of Kars, presently in the Republic of Turkey. The governorate bordered with the Ottoman Empire, Batum Oblast, Tiflis Governorate, Erivan Governorate, and from 1883 to 1903 the Kutais Governorate. It covered all of Turkey's present provinces of Kars and Ardahan and the northeastern part of Erzurum Province as well as a small part of Armenia.
context_section_description: In 1892, the population of Kars Oblast was estimated as 200,868. The ethnic composition, and religious affiliation of ethnic groups, was reported as follows:
  Turks (this number also included Adjarians): 24% (Sunni Muslims)
  Armenians: 21.5%
  Kurds: 15%
  Muslim Karapapaks: 14% (Sunni and some Shi'a)
  Alevi Karapapaks (reported as 'Turkmen'): 5%
  Yazidis
  Caucasus Greeks or eastern Pontic Greeks from Georgia and northeastern Anatolia: 13.5% (Orthodox Christians)
  Russians: 7% (mostly "sectarians", i.e. Spiritual Christian Pryguny, Molokans, Doukhobors, etc.)
  The religious composition of the population was reported as follows:
  Orthodox Christians: 14%
  Spiritual Christians (Pryguny, Molokans, Doukhobors, etc.): 5%
  Armenian Apostolic Church: 21%
  Other Christian churches: 0.75%
  Muslims: 53%, among which:
  Sunni: 46%
  Shi'a: 7%
  Alevi (reported as "Ali Illahi"): 5%
  Yazidism: 1.25%
caption: An 1883 map including Kars Oblast and adjacent provinces of Russian and Ottoman Empires
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