Uezd in Caucasus, Russian Empire
Dusheti uezd Душетскій уѣздъ | |
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Uezd | |
Coat of arms | |
Location in the Tiflis Governorate | |
Country | Russian Empire |
Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
Governorate | Tiflis |
Established | 1802 |
Abolished | 1929 |
Capital | Dushet (present-day Dusheti) |
Area | |
• Total | 3,882.84 km (1,499.17 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 66,430 |
• Density | 17/km (44/sq mi) |
• Urban | 3.37% |
• Rural | 96.63% |
The Dusheti 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 centre in Dushet (present-day Dusheti). The area of the uezd roughly corresponded to the contemporary Mtskheta-Mtianeti region of Georgia.
History
Following the Russian Revolution, the Dusheti uezd was incorporated into the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia.
Administrative divisions
The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Dusheti uezd in 1913 were as follows:
Name | 1912 population | Area |
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Bazaletskiy uchastok (Базалетскій участокъ) | 14,812 | 579.02 square versts (658.96 km; 254.43 sq mi) |
Kvishetskiy uchastok (Квишетскій участокъ) | 22,882 | 1,518.08 square versts (1,727.67 km; 667.06 sq mi) |
Ksanskiy uchastok (Ксанскій участокъ) | 14,732 | 800.15 square versts (910.62 km; 351.59 sq mi) |
Mtskhetskiy uchastok (Мцхетскій участокъ) | 15,930 | 514.55 square versts (585.59 km; 226.10 sq mi) |
Demographics
Russian Empire Census
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Dusheti uezd had a population of 67,719 on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 35,848 men and 31,871 women. The majority of the population indicated Georgian to be their mother tongue, with a significant Ossetian speaking minority.
Language | Native speakers | % |
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Georgian | 49,690 | 73.38 |
Ossetian | 14,523 | 21.45 |
Armenian | 1,680 | 2.48 |
Russian | 980 | 1.45 |
Tatar | 405 | 0.60 |
Assyrian | 121 | 0.18 |
Mingrelian | 54 | 0.08 |
Ukrainian | 53 | 0.08 |
Polish | 43 | 0.06 |
Jewish | 24 | 0.04 |
Avar-Andean | 17 | 0.03 |
Persian | 15 | 0.02 |
Imeretian | 14 | 0.02 |
German | 13 | 0.02 |
Kyurin | 10 | 0.01 |
Greek | 8 | 0.01 |
Dargin | 7 | 0.01 |
Lithuanian | 4 | 0.01 |
Kurdish | 3 | 0.00 |
Belarusian | 2 | 0.00 |
Chechen | 2 | 0.00 |
Kazi-Kumukh | 2 | 0.00 |
Romanian | 1 | 0.00 |
Chuvash | 1 | 0.00 |
Other | 47 | 0.07 |
TOTAL | 67,719 | 100.00 |
Kavkazskiy kalendar
According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Dusheti uezd had a population of 66,430 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 32,949 men and 33,481 women, 65,737 of whom were the permanent population, and 693 were temporary residents:
Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | |||
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Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
Georgians | 1,165 | 52.08 | 56,430 | 87.91 | 57,595 | 86.70 |
North Caucasians | 5 | 0.22 | 4,614 | 7.19 | 4,619 | 6.95 |
Armenians | 998 | 44.61 | 2,673 | 4.16 | 3,671 | 5.53 |
Russians | 52 | 2.32 | 218 | 0.34 | 270 | 0.41 |
Other Europeans | 16 | 0.72 | 109 | 0.17 | 125 | 0.19 |
Shia Muslims | 0 | 0.00 | 61 | 0.10 | 61 | 0.09 |
Jews | 1 | 0.04 | 59 | 0.09 | 60 | 0.09 |
Sunni Muslims | 0 | 0.00 | 29 | 0.05 | 29 | 0.04 |
TOTAL | 2,237 | 100.00 | 64,193 | 100.00 | 66,430 | 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 Tatars.
- 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.
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