Gori Uyezd

Gori Uyezd

Горийский уезд
Gori Uyezd Горийский уезд
Uezd
	Coat of arms
	Location in the Tiflis Governorate
Country	Russian Empire
Governorate	Tiflis
Viceroyalty	Caucasus
Established	1801
Abolished	1930
Seat	Gori
Uchastoks	Akhalkalaki, Borjomi, Gomi, Gorno-Ossetian, Kareli, Kvemo-Chal, Medzhviskhevi, Surami, and Tskhinvali
Area
• Total	6,837 km2 (2,640 sq mi)
Population (1916)
• Total	241,016
• Density	35/km2 (91/sq mi)

The Gori Uyezd (Russian: Горийский уезд; Georgian: გორის მაზრა) was an uezd (county) of the Tiflis Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, and then of Democratic Republic of Georgia, with its administrative center in Gori.^[1]^[2] The area of the uyezd roughly corresponded to the contemporary Shida Kartli region of Georgia.

History[]

Following the Russian Revolution, the Gori Uyezd was incorporated into the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia.

Administrative divisions[]

The uchastoks (sub-counties) of the Gori Uyezd were:^[3]

Akhalkalaki (Ахалкалакский участок)
Borjomi (Боржомский участок)
Gomi (Гомский участок)
Gorno-Ossetian (Горио-Осетинский участок)
Kareli (Карелский участок)
Kvemo-Chal (Квемо-Чалский участок)
Medzhviskhevi (Меджвисхевский участок)
Surami (Сурамский участок)
Tskhinvali (Цхинвалский участок)

Demographics[]

Caucasian Calendar of 1917[]

The 1917 Caucasian Calendar which produced statistics of 1916 indicates 241,016 residents in the Gori Uyezd, including 124,658 men and 116,358 women, 226,436 of whom were the permanent population, and 14,580 were temporary residents:^[4]

Nationality	Center	Rural	TOTAL
Georgians	9,580	152,846	162,426	67.4%
North Caucasians	0	37,567	37,567	15.6%
Armenians	7,270	25,552	32,822	13.6%
Jews	104	3,998	4,102	1.7%
Russians	1,377	1,030	2,407	1.0%
Greeks	0	1,450	1,450	0.6%
Azerbaijanis	58	116	174	0.1%
TOTAL	18,454	222,562	241,016	100.0%

References[]

^ Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedia: Tiflis Governorate (in Russian)
^ Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014), Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus, New Haven and London, p. 164, ISBN 978-0-300-15308-8, OCLC 884858065, retrieved 2021-12-25
^ Кавказский календарь .... на 1913 год (in Russian). Tiflis: Office of the Viceroy of the Caucasus. 1913. pp. 271–317.
^ Кавказский календарь .... на 1917 год (in Russian). Tiflis: Office of the Viceroy of the Caucasus. 1917. pp. 363–366.

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Coordinates: 41°58′0″N 44°06′0″E / 41.96667°N 44.10000°E / 41.96667; 44.10000

[bee-1] Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedia: Tiflis Governorate (in Russian)

[:02-2] Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014), Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus, New Haven and London, p. 164, ISBN 978-0-300-15308-8, OCLC 884858065, retrieved 2021-12-25

[:03-3] Кавказский календарь .... на 1913 год (in Russian). Tiflis: Office of the Viceroy of the Caucasus. 1913. pp. 271–317.

[:72-4] Кавказский календарь .... на 1917 год (in Russian). Tiflis: Office of the Viceroy of the Caucasus. 1917. pp. 363–366.

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