Telavi Uezd
The Telavi uezd was a county (uezd) 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. The area of the county corresponded to part of the contemporary Kakheti region of Georgia.
History
Following the Russian Revolution, the Telavi uezd was incorporated into the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia.
Administrative divisions
The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Telavi uezd in 1913 were as follows:
Name | 1912 population | Area |
---|---|---|
Kvarelskiy uchastok (Кварельскій участокъ) | 23,201 | 1,336.08 square versts (1,520.54 km; 587.08 sq mi) |
Tsinondalskiy uchastok (Цинондальскій участокъ) | 29,869 | 826.83 square versts (940.98 km; 363.32 sq mi) |
Demographics
Russian Empire Census
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Telavi uezd had a population of 66,767 on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 35,895 men and 30,872 women. The majority of the population indicated Georgian to be their mother tongue, with a significant Armenian speaking minority.
Language | Native speakers | % |
---|---|---|
Georgian | 57,357 | 85.91 |
Armenian | 4,754 | 7.12 |
Tatar | 1,873 | 2.81 |
Avar-Andean | 1,752 | 2.62 |
Russian | 694 | 1.04 |
Ossetian | 88 | 0.13 |
Imeretian | 74 | 0.11 |
German | 34 | 0.05 |
Jewish | 24 | 0.04 |
Ukrainian | 23 | 0.03 |
Kazi-Kumukh | 19 | 0.03 |
Persian | 17 | 0.03 |
Polish | 17 | 0.03 |
Dargin | 8 | 0.01 |
Greek | 7 | 0.01 |
Turkish | 5 | 0.01 |
French | 4 | 0.01 |
Assyrian | 2 | 0.00 |
Belarusian | 2 | 0.00 |
Chechen | 2 | 0.00 |
Kyurin | 1 | 0.00 |
Kist | 1 | 0.00 |
Latvian | 1 | 0.00 |
Lithuanian | 1 | 0.00 |
Other | 7 | 0.01 |
TOTAL | 66,767 | 100.00 |
Kavkazskiy kalendar
According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Telavi uezd had a population of 67,955 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 36,276 men and 31,679 women, 65,422 of whom were the permanent population, and 2,533 were temporary residents:
Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
Georgians | 2,757 | 27.50 | 54,221 | 93.60 | 56,978 | 83.85 |
Armenians | 7,068 | 70.50 | 1,412 | 2.44 | 8,480 | 12.48 |
North Caucasians | 8 | 0.08 | 1,300 | 2.24 | 1,308 | 1.92 |
Asiatic Christians | 0 | 0.00 | 873 | 1.51 | 873 | 1.28 |
Russians | 135 | 1.35 | 105 | 0.18 | 240 | 0.35 |
Other Europeans | 22 | 0.22 | 18 | 0.03 | 40 | 0.06 |
Jews | 22 | 0.22 | 0 | 0.00 | 22 | 0.03 |
Sunni Muslims | 14 | 0.14 | 0 | 0.00 | 14 | 0.02 |
TOTAL | 10,026 | 100.00 | 57,929 | 100.00 | 67,955 | 100.00 |
See also
Notes
- ^
- ^ Before 1918, Azerbaijanis were generally known as "Tatars". This term, employed by the Russians, referred to Turkic-speaking Muslims of the South Caucasus. After 1918, with the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and "especially during the Soviet era", the Tatar group identified itself as "Azerbaijani".
- ^ Primarily Turco-Tatars.
References
- ^ Tsutsiev 2014.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1913 год, pp. 164–175.
- ^ "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
- ^ Bournoutian 2018, p. 35 (note 25).
- ^ Tsutsiev 2014, p. 50.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 206–213.
- ^ Hovannisian 1971, p. 67.
Bibliography
- Bournoutian, George A. (2018). Armenia and Imperial Decline: The Yerevan Province, 1900–1914. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-06260-2. OCLC 1037283914.
- Hovannisian, Richard G. (1971). The Republic of Armenia: The First Year, 1918–1919. Vol. 1. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520019843.
- Кавказский календарь на 1913 год [Caucasian calendar for 1913] (in Russian) (68th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1913. Archived from the original on 19 April 2022.
- Кавказский календарь на 1917 год [Caucasian calendar for 1917] (in Russian) (72nd ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1917. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021.
- Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014). Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus (PDF). Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300153088. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 June 2023.