occupied by about 70% of the total area Turkestan, and about 25% of the Turkestan province. Administrative division Syr-Darya Oblast was originally divided into six uyezds: Aulie-Ata (Aulie-Ata was Russian render of "Evliya Ata") Kazalinsk Perovsk Tashkent Chimkent Amu Darya Okrug (Its center was Petroaleksandrovsk) Demographics According to the 1897 census, the total population was 1,478,398 inhabitants (803,411 men and 674,987 women), including the cities of 205,596. With the exception of the regional city of Tashkent as having 155,673 residents (the most populous city in Russian Central Asia) in the Syr-Darya region of large cities do not. Ethnic groups in 1897 With the exception of Russian - and some Orthodox Old Believers and other Europeans, Christians and Jews, the main bulk of the population (96.4%) consists of Muslims. Today, the territory of the former Syr-Darya Oblast is in eastern Uzbekistan and southeastern of Kazakhstan. References Sources Syr Darya region on the map of Turkestan (the end of the 19th and early 20th century), 1.25 MB Library Tsarskoye Selo, a book on the history of the Syrdarya Region, PDF Central Asia in the Russian Empire States and territories established in 1867 States and territories disestablished in 1917 Oblasts of the Russian Empire