n of Caucasia is increasing rapidly. In 1897
it numbered 9,291,090, of whom 4,886,230 were males and 4,404,867 were
females. The most densely-peopled provinces were Kutais and Tiflis, each
with 80 inhabitants to the square mile; the thinnest the Black Sea
government (20-1/2 per sq. m.), Terek (31), and Kars (39). Of the total
population 3,725,543 lived in northern Caucasia and 5,564,547 in
Transcaucasia (including Daghestan). In the latter territorial division
there exists a great disproportion between the sexes, namely, to every
100 males only 86 females; indeed in the Black Sea government there are
only 65.5 females to every 100 males. Ethnologically the population
belongs to a great variety of races. The older authorities asserted that
these numbered as many as 150, or even 300; the more recent researches
of Baron P.V. Uslar, F. Anton, von Schiefner, Zagursky, and others have
greatly reduced this number; but even then there are not less than fifty
represented.

According to the languages spoken the populations of Caucasia admit of
being classified as follows,[1] according to Senator N. Trointsky,
president of the Russian Census Committee for 1897.

ARYANS 4,901,412
_Slavs_ 3,183,870
Great Russians 1,829,793
Little Russians 1,305,463
White Russians 19,642
Poles 25,117
_Germans_ 47,391
_Greeks_ 100,299
_Rumanians_ 7,232
_French and Italians_ 1,435
_Lithuanians_ 6,687
Lithuanians proper 5,121
Letts 1,511
_Iranians_ 315,695
Persians 13,929
Talyshes 34,994
Tates 95,056
Ossetes 171,716
_Kurds_ 99,836
_Armenians_ 1,116,461
_Gypsies_ 3,041

SEMITES 46,739
_Jews_ 40,498
_Chaldaeans_ (Aisors) 5,353

URAL-ALTAIANS 1,902,142
_Finns_ 7,422
Esthonians