Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (February 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast Кара-Кыргыз өзэркин облусу
Autonomous oblast of the Russian SFSR
1924–1926
Capital	Pishpek
History
Historical era	Interwar period
• Established	14 October 1924
• renamed as Kirghiz AO	15 May 1925
• reorganized as Kirghiz ASSR	11 February 1926
Preceded by Succeeded by Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic (1926–1936)

The Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast (Russian: Кара-Киргизская автономная область; Kyrgyz: Кара-Кыргыз өзэркин облусу, romanized: Kara-Kyrgyz özerkin oblusu), abbreviated as Kara-Kirghiz AO (Russian: Кара-Киргизская АО; Kyrgyz: Кара-Кыргыз АО) or KAO (Russian: КАО; Kyrgyz: КӨО, romanized: KÖO) 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 that was the first name of Kazakh 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[]

This Kyrgyzstan location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t

This Soviet Union–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t