Jerwen County (german: Kreis Jerwen, german: Kreis Weissenstein, et, Järva kreis, et, Paide kreis, russian: Йервенский уезд, russian: Вейсенштейнский уезд) was one of the four

counties of the Russian Empire An uezd (also spelled uyezd; rus, уе́зд, p=ʊˈjest), or povit in a Ukrainian context ( uk, повіт), or Kreis in Baltic-German context, was a type of administrative subdivision of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Russian Empire, and the ea ...

located in the Governorate of Estonia. It was situated in the central part of the governorate (in present-day northern

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

). Its capital was Paide (''Weissenstein''). The territory of Kreis Jerwen corresponds to most of the present-day Järva County and small parts of Lääne-Viru and

Rapla Rapla (German: ''Rappel'') is a town in central Estonia, the capital of Rapla County and the centre of Rapla Parish. The oldest records date back to 1241 in the Danish Census Book, when it was said that it was a small village with 8 acres of ...

counties.

Demographics

At the time of the

Russian Empire Census The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897 ( pre-reform Russian: ) was the first and only nation-wide census performed in the Russian Empire (the Grand Duchy of Finland was excluded). It recorded demographic data as ...

of 1897, Kreis Jerwen had a population of 52,673. Of these, 96.7% spoke

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...

, 2.2%

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, 0.8% Russian, 0.1%

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and 0.1% Latvian as their native language.

References

{{coord, 59, 00, N, 25, 00, E, type:city, display=title Jerwen Uezds of Estland Governorate