Uezd in Caucasus, Russian Empire
Gori uezd Горійскій уѣздъ | |
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Uezd | |
Coat of arms | |
Location in the Tiflis Governorate | |
Country | Russian Empire |
Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
Governorate | Tiflis |
Established | 1801 |
Abolished | 1930 |
Capital | Gori |
Area | |
• Total | 6,836.98 km (2,639.77 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 241,016 |
• Density | 35/km (91/sq mi) |
• Urban | 7.66% |
• Rural | 92.34% |
The Gori 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 Gori. The area of the county roughly corresponded to the contemporary Shida Kartli region of Georgia.
History
Following the Russian Revolution, the Gori uezd was incorporated into the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia.
Administrative divisions
The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Gori uezd in 1913 were as follows:
Name | 1912 population |
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Akhalkalakskiy uchastok (Ахалкалакскій участокъ) | 27,765 |
Borzhomskiy uchastok (Боржомскій участокъ) | 9,284 |
Gomskiy uchastok (Гомскій участокъ) | 19,868 |
Gorno-Osetinskiy uchastok (Горио-Осетинскій участокъ) | 23,933 |
Karelskiy uchastok (Карельскій участокъ) | 22,982 |
Kvemo-Chalskiy uchastok (Квемо-Чалскій участокъ) | 14,216 |
Medzhviskhevskiy uchastok (Меджвисхевскій участокъ) | 23,770 |
Suramskiy uchastok (Сурамскій участокъ) | 12,351 |
Tskhinvalskiy uchastok (Цхинвальскій участокъ) | 31,953 |
Demographics
Russian Empire Census
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Gori uezd had a population of 191,091 on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 102,837 men and 88,254 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 | 124,180 | 64.98 |
Ossetian | 50,036 | 26.18 |
Armenian | 7,686 | 4.02 |
Russian | 5,281 | 2.76 |
Greek | 917 | 0.48 |
Jewish | 874 | 0.46 |
Tatar | 432 | 0.23 |
Imeretian | 393 | 0.21 |
Ukrainian | 335 | 0.18 |
Mingrelian | 233 | 0.12 |
Polish | 218 | 0.11 |
German | 197 | 0.10 |
Assyrian | 64 | 0.03 |
Turkish | 38 | 0.02 |
Avar-Andean | 30 | 0.02 |
Czech | 20 | 0.01 |
Dargin | 19 | 0.01 |
Kyurin | 16 | 0.01 |
Persian | 15 | 0.01 |
Lithuanian | 14 | 0.01 |
Latvian | 13 | 0.01 |
Chechen | 12 | 0.01 |
Belarusian | 7 | 0.00 |
Romanian | 4 | 0.00 |
Italian | 2 | 0.00 |
Kurdish | 1 | 0.00 |
Other | 54 | 0.03 |
TOTAL | 191,091 | 100.00 |
Kavkazskiy kalendar
According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Gori uezd had a population of 241,016 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 124,658 men and 116,358 women, 226,436 of whom were the permanent population, and 14,580 were temporary residents:
Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | |||
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Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
Georgians | 9,580 | 51.91 | 152,846 | 68.68 | 162,426 | 67.39 |
North Caucasians | 0 | 0.00 | 37,567 | 16.88 | 37,567 | 15.59 |
Armenians | 7,270 | 39.40 | 25,552 | 11.48 | 32,822 | 13.62 |
Jews | 104 | 0.56 | 3,998 | 1.80 | 4,102 | 1.70 |
Russians | 1,377 | 7.46 | 1,030 | 0.46 | 2,407 | 1.00 |
Asiatic Christians | 0 | 0.00 | 1,450 | 0.65 | 1,450 | 0.60 |
Shia Muslims | 22 | 0.12 | 116 | 0.05 | 138 | 0.06 |
Other Europeans | 65 | 0.35 | 3 | 0.00 | 68 | 0.03 |
Sunni Muslims | 36 | 0.20 | 0 | 0.00 | 36 | 0.01 |
TOTAL | 18,454 | 100.00 | 222,562 | 100.00 | 241,016 | 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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