Tsanareti (Georgian: წანარეთი; alternative spellings: Tsanaria, Canaria, Sanaria, Sanaryia) was a historic district (Khevi) in the early medieval Caucasus, lying chiefly in what is now the northeastern corner in Georgia’s region of Mtskheta-Mtianeti.

In the narrow sense of the term Tsanareti (reduced later simply to Khevi) was applied by the medieval Georgian annals to the area around the Darial Pass, inhabited by the Tsanars.

According to the 8th century Arab historian Masudi, the Tsanars, though Christians, claimed their origin from Nizar b. Maad b. Murad, and then from a branch of the Ukail family.

[citation needed] In struggle against the Arab occupation Tsanars staged a powerful uprising in the 770s and, according to Ya'qubi, requested help from the Byzantines, Khazars and the as-Saqāliba.

However, the Tsanars seem to have been significantly weakened by the early 9th century, enabling their rival clan of the Gardabanians to install their chief Vache as a Chorepiscopus of Kakheti in the 830s.