Telavi Uyezd

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.

Telavi Uyezd
Телавский уезд
Uezd
Coat of arms
Location in the Tiflis Governorate
CountryRussian Empire
GovernorateTiflis
ViceroyaltyCaucasus
Established1801
Abolished1930
SeatTelavi
UchastoksKvarel, and Tsinondal
Area
 • Total2,462 km2 (951 sq mi)
Population
 (1916)
 • Total67,955
 • Density28/km2 (71/sq mi)

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
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
  1. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedia: Tiflis Governorate (in Russian)
  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
  3. Кавказский календарь .... на 1913 год (in Russian). Tiflis: Office of the Viceroy of the Caucasus. 1913. pp. 271–317.
  4. Кавказский календарь .... на 1917 год (in Russian). Tiflis: Office of the Viceroy of the Caucasus. 1917. pp. 363–366.

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