Adjar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Adjar ASSR, Adzhar ASSR or Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Georgian: აჭარის ავტონომიური საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა) was an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union within the Georgian SSR, established on 16 July 1921. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 it constitutes the Autonomous Republic of Adjara of Georgia.

Establishment

Main article: History of Adjara

After a temporary occupation by Turkish and British troops in 1918–1920, Ajaria was reunited with Georgia in 1920. After a brief military conflict in March 1921, Ankara government ceded the territory to Georgia due to Article VI of Treaty of Kars with the condition for autonomy to be provided for the Muslim population. The Soviet Union established the Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on 16 July 1921 in accord with this clause. However under Soviet Union, Islam, like Christianity, was persecuted and repressed.

Autonomous Republics of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

Abkhaz ASSR (1930 – 1992) Adjar ASSR (1921 – 1990) Bashkir ASSR (1919 – 1990) Buryat ASSR (1923 – 1990; Buryat–Mongol ASSR up to 1958) Chechen-Ingush ASSR (1936 – 1944; 1957 – 1990) Chuvash ASSR (1925 – 1990) Crimean ASSR (1921 – 1945; 1991 – 1992) Dagestan ASSR (1921 – 1991) Gorno-Altai ASSR (1990 – 1991) Kabardin ASSR (1944 – 1957) Kabardino-Balkar ASSR (1936 – 1944; 1957 – 1991) Kalmyk ASSR (1935 – 1943; 1958 – 1990) Karachay-Cherkess ASSR (1990 – 1991) Karakalpak ASSR (1932 – 1992) Karelian ASSR (1923 – 1940; 1956 – 1991) Kazakh ASSR (Kirghiz ASSR) (1920 – 1936) Komi ASSR (1936 – 1990) Mari ASSR (1936 – 1990) Moldavian ASSR (1924 – 1940) Mordovian ASSR (1934 – 1990) Mountain ASSR (1920 – 1924) Nakhchivan ASSR (1924 – 1990) North Ossetian ASSR (1936 – 1990) Tajik ASSR (1924 – 1929) Tatar ASSR (1920 – 1990) Turkestan ASSR (1918 – 1924) Tuva ASSR (1961 – 1990) Udmurt ASSR (1934 – 1991) Volga German ASSR (1918 – 1941) Yakut ASSR (1922 – 1990)