Gori uezd
Gori uezd
Горійскій уѣздъ | |
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Country | Russian Empire |
Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
Governorate | Tiflis |
Established | 1801 |
Abolished | 1930 |
Capital | Gori |
Area | |
• Total | 6,836.98 km2 (2,639.77 sq mi) |
Population (1916) | |
• Total | 241,016 |
• Density | 35/km2 (91/sq mi) |
• Urban | 7.66% |
• Rural | 92.34% |
The Gori 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 center in Gori.[1][2] The area of the uezd 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.[2]
Administrative divisions
The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Gori uezd were as follows:[3]
Uchastok | Russian name | 1912 population |
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Akhalkalaksky | Ахалкалакскій участокъ | 27,765 |
Borzhomsky (Borjomi) | Боржомскій участокъ | 9,284 |
Gomsky | Гомскій участокъ | 19,868 |
Gorno-Osetinsky | Горио-Осетинскій участокъ | 23,933 |
Karelsky | Карельскій участокъ | 22,982 |
Kvemo-Chalsky | Квемо-Чалскій участокъ | 14,216 |
Medzhviskhevsky | Меджвисхевскій участокъ | 23,770 |
Suramsky | Сурамскій участокъ | 12,351 |
Tskhinvalsky (Tskhinvali) | Цхинвальскій участокъ | 31,953 |
Demographics
Russian Empire census (1897)
According to the Russian Empire Census of 1897, the Gori uezd had a population of 191,091, 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.[4]
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[b] | 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 |
Caucasian Calendar (1917)
According to the 1917 publication of the Caucasian Calendar, the Gori uezd had 241,016 residents in 1916, including 124,658 men and 116,358 women, 226,436 of whom were the permanent population, and 14,580 were temporary residents:[5]
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[c] | 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[d] | 22 | 0.12 | 116 | 0.05 | 138 | 0.06 |
Other Europeans | 65 | 0.35 | 3 | 0.00 | 68 | 0.03 |
Sunni Muslims[e] | 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
- ^
- ^ Later known as Azerbaijani.
- ^ The Caucasian Calendar did not distinguish between Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians.
- ^ Primarily Tatars,[6] later known as Azerbaijanis.[7]
- ^ Primarily Turco-Tatars.[6]
References
- ^ Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedia: Tiflis Governorate (in Russian)
- ^ a b 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
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1913 год [Caucasian calendar for 1913] (in Russian) (68th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1913. pp. 164–175. Archived from the original on 19 April 2022.
- ^ a b "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год [Caucasian calendar for 1917] (in Russian) (72nd ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1917. pp. 206–213. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021.
- ^ a b Hovannisian 1971, p. 67.
- ^ Bournoutian 2015, p. 35.
Bibliography
- Bournoutian, George (2015). "Demographic Changes in the Southwest Caucasus, 1604–1830: The Case of Historical Eastern Armenia". Forum of EthnoGeoPolitics. Amsterdam. 3 (2).
- Hovannisian, Richard G. (1971). The Republic of Armenia. Vol. 1. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-01805-2.
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