Senaki uezd

The Senaki uezd was a county of the Kutaisi Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It bordered the Zugdidi uezd to the west, the Lechkhumi uezd to the north, the Kutaisi uezd to the east, and the Ozurgeti uezd to the south. The area of the uezd corresponded to most of the contemporary Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region of Georgia. The Senaki uezd was eponymously named for its administrative center, Senaki.

History

The Senaki uezd was formed in 1846 as part of the Kutaisi Governorate on the territory of the historical region of Samegrelo during the time of the Russian Empire. In 1918, the Kutaisi Governorate including the Senaki uezd was incorporated into part of the Democratic Republic of Georgia.

Administrative divisions

The subcounties of the Senaki uezd in 1913 were as follows:

Name	1912 population
Abashskiy uchastok	20,740
Bandzinskiy uchastok	15,246
Martvilskiy uchastok	20,218
Senakskiy uchastok	7,587

Demographics

Russian Empire Census

According to the Russian Empire Census, the Senaki uezd had a population of 115,785 on, including 58,585 men and 57,200 women. The majority of the population indicated Mingrelian to be their mother tongue, with a significant Georgian speaking minority.

Language	Native speakers	%
Mingrelian	96,851	83.65
Georgian	14,338	12.38
Russian	1,395	1.20
Imeretian	895	0.77
Armenian	448	0.39
Jewish	448	0.39
Greek	401	0.35
Polish	175	0.15
Turkish	173	0.15
Ukrainian	124	0.11
English	85	0.07
Lithuanian	72	0.06
German	71	0.06
Tatar	64	0.06
Svan	63	0.05
Abkhaz	24	0.02
Romanian	17	0.01
Kurdish	3	0.00
Ossetian	3	0.00
Persian	2	0.00
Avar-Andean	1	0.00
Belarusian	1	0.00
Estonian	1	0.00
Other	130	0.11
TOTAL	115,785	100.00

''Kavkazskiy kalendar''

According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Senaki uezd had a population of 159,678 on, including 86,448 men and 73,230 women, 149,112 of whom were the permanent population, and 10,566 were temporary residents: