The Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Adjarian ASSR or Adzhar ASSR; ka, აჭარის ავტონომიური საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა; russian: Аджарская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика) was an
autonomous republic of the Soviet Union
An Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR, russian: автономная советская социалистическая республика, АССР) was a type of administrative unit in the Soviet Union (USSR) created for certain natio ...
within the
Georgian SSR
The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (Georgian SSR; ka, საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა, tr; russian: Грузинская Советская Соц ...
, established on 16 July 1921.
After the
dissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
in 1991, it became the
Autonomous Republic of Adjara
Adjara ( ka, აჭარა ''Ach’ara'' ) or Achara, officially known as the Autonomous Republic of Adjara ( ka, აჭარის ავტონომიური რესპუბლიკა ''Ach’aris Avt’onomiuri Resp’ublik’a'' ...
within
Georgia
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* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
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.
Establishment
After a temporary occupation by
Turkish and
British
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Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
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troops in 1918–1920, Ajaria was reunited with Georgia in 1920. A
brief military conflict in March 1921 prompted the government in
Ankara
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to cede the territory to Georgia as a consequence of Article VI of the
Treaty of Kars
The Treaty of Kars ( tr, Kars Antlaşması, rus, Карсский договор, Karskii dogovor, ka, ყარსის ხელშეკრულება, hy, Կարսի պայմանագիր, az, Qars müqaviləsi) was a treaty that est ...
, with the condition for autonomy to be provided for the
Muslim
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population. Accordingly, the
Soviet Union
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established the Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on 16 July 1921. Nonetheless, Islam within the new republic,
as elsewhere in the Soviet Union and
in common with Christianity, was
persecuted and repressed.
See also
*
First Secretary of the Adjar Communist Party The First Secretary of the Adjar regional branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the position of highest authority in the Adjar ASSR in the Georgian SSR of the Soviet Union. The position was created in 1921, and abolished in 1991. The ...
References
Politics of Adjara
History of Adjara
Autonomous republics of the Soviet Union
20th century in Georgia (country)
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
States and territories established in 1921
States and territories disestablished in 1990
Former socialist republics
1921 establishments in Russia
1990 disestablishments in the Soviet Union
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