Telavi Uyezd
Telavi Uyezd
Телавский уезд | |
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Country | Russian Empire |
Governorate | Tiflis |
Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
Established | 1801 |
Abolished | 1930 |
Seat | Telavi |
Uchastoks | Kvarel, and Tsinondal |
Area | |
• Total | 2,462 km2 (951 sq mi) |
Population (1916) | |
• Total | 67,955 |
• Density | 28/km2 (71/sq mi) |
The Telavi Uyezd (Russian: Телавский уезд; Georgian: თელავის 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 Telavi.[1][2] The area of the uyezd roughly corresponded to the contemporary Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia.
History[]
Following the Russian Revolution, the Telavi Uyezd was incorporated into the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia
Administrative divisions[]
The uchastoks (sub-counties) of the Telavi Uyezd were:[3]
- Kvarel (Кварельский участок)
- Tsinondal (Цинондальский участок)
Demographics[]
Caucasian Calendar of 1917[]
The 1917 Caucasian Calendar which produced statistics of 1916 indicates 67,955 residents in the Telavi Uyezd, including 36,276 men and 31,679 women, 65,422 of whom were the permanent population, and 2,533 were temporary residents:[4]
Nationality | Center | Rural | TOTAL | |
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Georgians | 2,757 | 54,221 | 56,978 | 83.8% |
North Caucasians | 8 | 1,300 | 1,308 | 1.9% |
Armenians | 7,068 | 1,412 | 8,480 | 12.5% |
Russians | 135 | 105 | 240 | 0.3% |
Greeks | 0 | 873 | 873 | 1.3% |
TOTAL | 10,026 | 57,929 | 67,955 | 100.0% |
See also[]
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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