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Cherkess Autonomous Oblast

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The Cherkess Autonomous Oblast (Russian: Черкесская автономная область, romanized: Cherkesskaya avtonomnaya oblast; Template:Lang-kbd, Čérkés avtonomne oblast’) or Cherkessia (Russian: Черкесия, romanized: Cherkesiya; Template:Lang-kbd, Šerdžes, or Черкес хэку, Čérkés xekw) was an autonomous oblast of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, created on April 26, 1926[1] by the split of the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Oblast. It was called the Cherkess National Okrug (Russian: Черкесский национальный округ, romanized: Cherkessky natsionalny okrug) until April 30, 1928.[1] It was dissolved in 1957 by the creation of the new Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Oblast.[2]

Territorial changes of the Cherkess Autonomous Oblast

References

  1. ^ a b "KNAB, the Place Names Database of EKI". Eki.ee. Retrieved January 1, 2013.
  2. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica