Transcaucasian Commissariat

Transcaucasian Commissariat
Закавказский Комиссариат
Zakavkazskij Komissariat
Autonomy of Russia

1917–1918

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Capital Tiflis (now Tiblisi)
Government Commissariat
Chairman
  1917–1918 Evgeni Gegechkori
History
  Established 11 November 1917
  Independence 24 February 1918

The Transcaucasian Commissariat was established at Tbilisi on 11 November 1917, as the first government of the independent Transcaucasia following the October Revolution in Petrograd. The Commissariat decided to strengthen the GeorgianArmenianAzerbaijani union by convoking a Diet or general assembly (Sejm) in January 1918.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. Richard Pipes, The formation of the Soviet Union, page 103.
  2. Swietochowski, Tadeusz (1985). Russian Azerbaijan, 1905–1920: The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 106. ISBN 0-521-26310-7. Retrieved July 9, 2010.

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