Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Autonomous republic within the Georgian SSR

აჭარის ავტონომიური საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა (Georgian)
Аджарская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика (Russian)

ASSR of the Georgian SSR
Autonomous republic of Georgia

1921–1990

Flag

Coat of arms

Map of the Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1922.

Capital

Batumi

• Type

Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

History

• Established

1921

• Disestablished

1990

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Democratic Republic of Georgia

Adjara

The Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Adjarian ASSR or Adzhar ASSR; Georgian: აჭარის ავტონომიური საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა, romanized: ach'aris avt'onomiuri sabch'ota sotsialist'uri resp'ublik'a; Russian: Аджарская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика, romanized: Adzharskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) was an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union within the Georgian SSR, established on 16 July 1921.^[1] On 10 December 1990, it was renamed into the Autonomous Republic of Adjara. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, it became part of the independent Georgia.

Establishment

After a temporary occupation by Turkish and British troops in 1918–1920, Ajaria was reunited with Georgia in 1920. A brief military conflict in March 1921 prompted the government in Ankara to cede the territory to Georgia as a consequence of Article VI of the Treaty of Kars, with the condition for autonomy to be provided for the Muslim population.^[2] Accordingly, the Soviet Union 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.

References

^ "1936 CONSTITUTION OF THE USSR". Brucknell University. December 1936. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
^ Nazaroff, Alexander (1922). "Russia's Treaty with Turkey". Current History. 17 (2): 276–279. ISSN 2641-080X. JSTOR 45330678.

Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics of the Soviet Union

By name

By year
established

1918–1924 Turkestan³
1918–1941 Volga German⁴
1919–1990 Bashkir
1920–1925 Kirghiz²
1920–1990 Tatar
1921–1991 Adjarian
1921–1945 Crimean
1921–1991 Dagestan
1921–1924 Mountain

1921–1990 Nakhichevan
1922–1991 Yakut
1923–1990 Buryat¹
1923–1940 Karelian
1924–1940 Moldavian
1924–1929 Tajik
1925–1992 Chuvash⁵
1925–1936 Kazakh²
1926–1936 Kirghiz

1931–1992 Abkhaz
1932–1992 Karakalpak
1934–1990 Mordovian
1934–1990 Udmurt⁶
1935–1943 Kalmyk
1936–1944 Checheno-Ingush
1936–1944 Kabardino-Balkarian
1936–1990 Komi
1936–1990 Mari