| Area Total Km2: | 2,461.53 |
| Established Date: | 1801 |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Extinct Date: | 1930 |
| Extinct Title: | Abolished |
| Mapsize: | 220px |
| Telavi uezd | |
| Native Name: | Телавскій уѣздъ |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Population As Of: | 1916 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Rural: | 85.25% |
| Population Total: | 67,955 |
| Population Urban: | 14.75% |
| Seat: | Telavi |
| Seat Type: | Capital |
| Settlement Type: | Uezd |
| Subdivision Name: | Russian Empire |
| Subdivision Name1: | Caucasus |
| Subdivision Name2: | Tiflis |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Viceroyalty |
| Subdivision Type2: | Governorate |
| Total Type: | Total |
The Telavi 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 Telavi. The area of the county roughly corresponded to the contemporary Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia.
Following the Russian Revolution, the Telavi uezd was incorporated into the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia.
The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Telavi uezd in 1913 were as follows:
| Name | 1912 population | Area | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kvarelskiy uchastok | 23,201 | 1336.08verst2 | |
| Tsinondalskiy uchastok | 29,869 | 826.83verst2 |
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Telavi uezd had a population of 66,767 on, including 35,895 men and 30,872 women. The majority of the population indicated Georgian to be their mother tongue, with a significant Armenian speaking minority.[1]
| Georgian | 57,357 | 85.91 | |
| Armenian | 4,754 | 7.12 | |
| Tatar | 1,873 | 2.81 | |
| Avar-Andean | 1,752 | 2.62 | |
| Russian | 694 | 1.04 | |
| Ossetian | 88 | 0.13 | |
| Imeretian | 74 | 0.11 | |
| German | 34 | 0.05 | |
| Jewish | 24 | 0.04 | |
| Ukrainian | 23 | 0.03 | |
| Kazi-Kumukh | 19 | 0.03 | |
| Persian | 17 | 0.03 | |
| Polish | 17 | 0.03 | |
| Dargin | 8 | 0.01 | |
| Greek | 7 | 0.01 | |
| Turkish | 5 | 0.01 | |
| French | 4 | 0.01 | |
| Assyrian | 2 | 0.00 | |
| Belarusian | 2 | 0.00 | |
| Chechen | 2 | 0.00 | |
| Kyurin | 1 | 0.00 | |
| Kist | 1 | 0.00 | |
| Latvian | 1 | 0.00 | |
| Lithuanian | 1 | 0.00 | |
| Other | 7 | 0.01 | |
| TOTAL | 66,767 | 100.00 |
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According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Telavi uezd had a population of 67,955 on, including 36,276 men and 31,679 women, 65,422 of whom were the permanent population, and 2,533 were temporary residents:
| Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | ||
| Georgians | 2,757 | 27.50 | 54,221 | 93.60 | 56,978 | 83.85 | |
| Armenians | 7,068 | 70.50 | 1,412 | 2.44 | 8,480 | 12.48 | |
| North Caucasians | 8 | 0.08 | 1,300 | 2.24 | 1,308 | 1.92 | |
| Asiatic Christians | 0 | 0.00 | 873 | 1.51 | 873 | 1.28 | |
| Russians | 135 | 1.35 | 105 | 0.18 | 240 | 0.35 | |
| Other Europeans | 22 | 0.22 | 18 | 0.03 | 40 | 0.06 | |
| Jews | 22 | 0.22 | 0 | 0.00 | 22 | 0.03 | |
| Sunni Muslims | 14 | 0.14 | 0 | 0.00 | 14 | 0.02 | |
| TOTAL | 10,026 | 100.00 | 57,929 | 100.00 | 67,955 | 100.00 | |