Tionety uezd Тіонетскій уѣздъ | |
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Country | Russian Empire |
Governorate | Tiflis |
Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
Established | 1874 |
Abolished | 1930 |
Capital | Tionety (present-day Tianeti) |
Area | |
• Total | 4,836.83 km2 (1,867.51 sq mi) |
Population (1916) | |
• Total | 49,350 |
• Density | 10/km2 (26/sq mi) |
• Rural | 100.00% |
The Tionety uezd [a] 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 centre in Tionety (present-day Tianeti). [1] The area of the uezd roughly corresponded to the contemporary Mtskheta-Mtianeti region of Georgia.
Following the Russian Revolution, the Tionety uezd was incorporated into the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia. [1]
The subcounties ( uchastoks ) of the Tionety uezd in 1913 were as follows: [2]
Name | 1912 population | Area |
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Pshavo-Khevsuretskiy uchastok (Пшаво-Хевсуретскій участокъ) | 13,967 | 1,781.87 square versts (2,027.88 km2 ; 782.97 sq mi ) |
Tushino-Kakhetinskiy uchastok (Тушино-Кахетинскій участокъ) | 13,017 | 1,601.16 square versts (1,822.22 km2 ; 703.56 sq mi ) |
Ertsoyskiy uchastok (Эрцойскій участокъ) | 16,403 | 867.03 square versts (986.73 km2 ; 380.98 sq mi ) |
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Tionety uezd had a population of 34,153 on 28 January [ O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 16,431 men and 17,722 women. The majority of the population indicated Georgian to be their mother tongue, with a significant Chechen speaking minority. [3]
Language | Native speakers | % |
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Georgian | 30,302 | 88.72 |
Chechen | 2,113 | 6.19 |
Russian | 637 | 1.87 |
Armenian | 538 | 1.58 |
Kist | 284 | 0.83 |
Ossetian | 227 | 0.66 |
Persian | 24 | 0.07 |
Turkish | 10 | 0.03 |
Avar-Andean | 6 | 0.02 |
Greek | 5 | 0.01 |
Tatar [b] | 3 | 0.01 |
Belarusian | 1 | 0.00 |
French | 1 | 0.00 |
Jewish | 1 | 0.00 |
Polish | 1 | 0.00 |
TOTAL | 34,153 | 100.00 |
According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar , the Tionety uezd had a population of 49,350 on 14 January [ O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 24,402 men and 24,948 women, 48,666 of whom were the permanent population, and 684 were temporary residents: [6]
Nationality | Number | % |
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Georgians | 47,515 | 96.28 |
Armenians | 1,726 | 3.50 |
Russians | 56 | 0.11 |
North Caucasians | 39 | 0.08 |
Jews | 12 | 0.02 |
Other Europeans | 2 | 0.00 |
TOTAL | 49,350 | 100.00 |
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