The Dusheti uezd was a county (''

uezd An uezd (also spelled uyezd; rus, уе́зд, p=ʊˈjest), or povit in a Ukrainian context ( uk, повіт), or Kreis in Baltic-German context, was a type of administrative subdivision of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Russian Empire, and the e ...

'') of the

Tiflis Governorate The Tiflis Governorate was a province ('' guberniya'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire with its administrative center in Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi). In 1897, it constituted 44,607 sq. kilometres in area and had a population ...

of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the

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, and then of

Democratic Republic of Georgia The Democratic Republic of Georgia (DRG; ka, საქართველოს დემოკრატიული რესპუბლიკა ') was the first modern establishment of a republic of Georgia, which existed from May 1918 to ...

, with its administrative center in Dushet (present-day

Dusheti Dusheti () is a town in Georgia, the administrative center of Dusheti Municipality, in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region, 54 km northeast of the nation's capital of Tbilisi. History Dusheti is on both banks of the small, mountainous Dushetis-Khe ...

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Tiflis Governorate
The area of the uezd roughly corresponded to the contemporary

Mtskheta-Mtianeti Mtskheta-Mtianeti ( ka, მცხეთა-მთიანეთი, literally "Mtskheta-Mountain Area") is a region ( Mkhare) in eastern Georgia comprising the town of Mtskheta, which serves as a regional capital, together with its district and t ...

region of

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History

Following the

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, the Dusheti uezd was incorporated into the short-lived

Administrative divisions

The subcounties ('' uchastoks'') of the Dusheti uezd were as follows:

Demographics

Russian Empire census (1897)

According to the Russian Empire Census of 1897, the Dusheti uezd had a population of 67,719, 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.

Caucasian Calendar (1917)

According to the 1917 publication of the ''Caucasian Calendar'', the Dusheti uezd had 66,430 residents in 1916, including 32,949 men and 33,481 women, 65,737 of whom were the permanent population, and 693 were temporary residents:

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