| Area Total Km2: | 4,836.83 |
| Established Date: | 1874 |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Extinct Date: | 1930 |
| Extinct Title: | Abolished |
| Mapsize: | 220px |
| Tionety uezd | |
| Native Name: | Тіонетскій уѣздъ |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Population As Of: | 1916 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Rural: | 100.00% |
| Population Total: | 49350 |
| Seat: | Tionety (present-day Tianeti) |
| Seat Type: | Capital |
| Settlement Type: | Uezd |
| Subdivision Name: | Russian Empire |
| Subdivision Name1: | Tiflis |
| Subdivision Name2: | Caucasus |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Type2: | Viceroyalty |
| Total Type: | Total |
The Tionety 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 centre in Tionety (present-day Tianeti). The area of the uezd roughly corresponded to the contemporary Mtskheta-Mtianeti region of Georgia.
Following the Russian Revolution, the Tionety uezd was incorporated into the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia.
The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Tionety uezd in 1913 were as follows:
| Name | 1912 population | Area | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pshavo-Khevsuretskiy uchastok | 13,967 | 1781.87verst2 | |
| Tushino-Kakhetinskiy uchastok | 13,017 | 1601.16verst2 | |
| Ertsoyskiy uchastok | 16,403 | 867.03verst2 |
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Tionety uezd had a population of 34,153 on, including 16,431 men and 17,722 women. The majority of the population indicated Georgian to be their mother tongue, with a significant Chechen speaking minority.[1]
| Georgian | 30,302 | 88.72 | |
| Chechen | 2,113 | 6.19 | |
| Russian | 637 | 1.87 | |
| Armenian | 538 | 1.58 | |
| Kist | 284 | 0.83 | |
| Ossetian | 227 | 0.66 | |
| Persian | 24 | 0.07 | |
| Turkish | 10 | 0.03 | |
| Avar-Andean | 6 | 0.02 | |
| Greek | 5 | 0.01 | |
| Tatar | 3 | 0.01 | |
| Belarusian | 1 | 0.00 | |
| French | 1 | 0.00 | |
| Jewish | 1 | 0.00 | |
| Polish | 1 | 0.00 | |
| TOTAL | 34,153 | 100.00 |
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According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Tionety uezd had a population of 49,350 on, including 24,402 men and 24,948 women, 48,666 of whom were the permanent population, and 684 were temporary residents:
| Nationality | Number | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgians | 47,515 | 96.28 | |
| Armenians | 1,726 | 3.50 | |
| Russians | 56 | 0.11 | |
| North Caucasians | 39 | 0.08 | |
| Jews | 12 | 0.02 | |
| Other Europeans | 2 | 0.00 | |
| TOTAL | 49,350 | 100.00 |