Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast

Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast
Кара-Киргизская автономная область
Autonomous oblast of the Russian SFSR

1924–1926
Map of the Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic (formerly the Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast) in 1928
Capital Pishpek
Historical era Interwar period
  Established 14 October 1924
  renamed as Kirghiz AO 15 May 1925
  reorganized as Kirghiz ASSR 11 February 1926

The Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast (Russian: Кара-Киргизская АО, transliterated as Kara-Kirgizskaya AO), in the former region of Soviet Central Asia, was created on 14 October 1924 within the Russian SFSR from the predominantly Kyrgyz part of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. On 15 May 1925 it was renamed into the Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast. On 11 February 1926 it was reorganized into the Kirghiz ASSR (Not to be confused with the Kirghiz ASSR, which was the first name of Kazak ASSR). On 5 December 1936 it became the Kirghiz SSR, one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union.

Kara-Kirghiz is a former name for the Kyrgyz that literally means "the black Kirghiz (= Kyrgyz)", in reference to the colour of tents the nomads used.[1]

References

  1. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica: "Kirghiz" (scanned version)


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