Tartu kreis

Kreis Dorpat (Tartu kreis, Дерптский уезд, 1893-1918 Юрьевский уезд) was one of the nine subdivisions of the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire.

It was situated in the northeastern part of the governorate (in present-day eastern Estonia).

[1] At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kreis Dorpat had a population of 190,317.

Of these, 86.8% spoke Estonian, 7.2% Russian, 4.4% German, 0.8% Yiddish, 0.4% Latvian and 0.3% Polish as their native language.

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