The Ozurgeti uezd[a] was a county (uezd) of the Kutaisi Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It bordered the Senaki uezd to the north, the Kutaisi uezd to the east, the Akhaltsikhe uezd of the Tiflis Governorate to the southeast, the Batum Okrug of the Batum Oblast to the south, and the Black Sea to the west. The area of the Ozurgeti uezd corresponded to most of the contemporary Guria region of Georgia. The county was eponymously named for its administrative center, Ozurgeti.[1]
Ozurgeti uezd
Озургетскій уѣздъ | |
|---|---|
 Coat of arms | |
.png) Location in the Kutais Governorate | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
| Governorate | Kutaisi |
| Established | 1846 |
| Abolished | 1930 |
| Capital | Ozurgeti |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,161.23 km2 (834.46 sq mi) |
| Population (1916) | |
| • Total | 115,339 |
| • Density | 53/km2 (140/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 9.71% |
| • Rural | 90.29% |
History
editThe Ozurgeti uezd was formed in 1846 as part of the Kutaisi Governorate during the time of the Russian Empire. In 1918, the Kutaisi Governorate including the Ozurgeti uezd was incorporated into the Democratic Republic of Georgia.[1]
Administrative divisions
editThe subcounties (uchastoks) of the Ozurgeti uezd in 1913 were as follows:[2]
| Name | 1912 population | Area |
|---|---|---|
| Guriantskiy uchastok (Гуриантскій участокъ) | 20,585 | 606.10 square versts (689.78 km2; 266.33 sq mi) |
| Lanchkhutskiy uchastok (Ланчхутскій участокъ) | 38,658 | 464.68 square versts (528.83 km2; 204.18 sq mi) |
| Chokhataurskiy uchastok (Чохатаурскій участокъ) | 37,603 | 828.26 square versts (942.61 km2; 363.94 sq mi) |
Demographics
editRussian Empire Census
editAccording to the Russian Empire Census, the Ozurgeti uezd had a population of 90,326 on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 45,426 men and 44,900 women. The majority of the population indicated Georgian to be their mother tongue, with a significant Greek speaking minority.[3]
| Language | Native speakers | % |
|---|---|---|
| Georgian | 86,057 | 95.27 |
| Greek | 3,009 | 3.33 |
| Russian | 526 | 0.58 |
| Mingrelian | 305 | 0.34 |
| Turkish | 179 | 0.20 |
| Svan | 44 | 0.05 |
| Ukrainian | 41 | 0.05 |
| Tatar[b] | 39 | 0.04 |
| Armenian | 29 | 0.03 |
| German | 22 | 0.02 |
| Polish | 20 | 0.02 |
| Abkhaz | 10 | 0.01 |
| Imeretian | 8 | 0.01 |
| Persian | 6 | 0.01 |
| Avar-Andean | 5 | 0.01 |
| Belarusian | 2 | 0.00 |
| Jewish | 1 | 0.00 |
| Kurdish | 1 | 0.00 |
| Ossetian | 1 | 0.00 |
| Other | 21 | 0.02 |
| TOTAL | 90,326 | 100.00 |
Kavkazskiy kalendar
editAccording to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Ozurgeti uezd had a population of 115,339 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 61,071 men and 54,268 women, 111,987 of whom were the permanent population, and 3,352 were temporary residents:[6]
| Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Georgians | 10,259 | 91.61 | 104,066 | 99.93 | 114,325 | 99.12 |
| Russians | 695 | 6.21 | 75 | 0.07 | 770 | 0.67 |
| Other Europeans | 182 | 1.63 | 0 | 0.00 | 182 | 0.16 |
| Armenians | 42 | 0.38 | 0 | 0.00 | 42 | 0.04 |
| Jews | 20 | 0.18 | 0 | 0.00 | 20 | 0.02 |
| TOTAL | 11,198 | 100.00 | 104,141 | 100.00 | 115,339 | 100.00 |
Notes
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- ^ 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".[4][5]
References
edit- ^ a b Tsutsiev 2014.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1913 год, pp. 160–167.
- ^ a b "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
- ^ Bournoutian 2018, p. 35 (note 25).
- ^ Tsutsiev 2014, p. 50.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 198–205.
Bibliography
edit- 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.
- 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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