- Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (initially Turkestan Socialist Federative Republic) (
April 30 ,1918 –October 27 ,1924 ) was created from theTurkestan Krai ofImperial Russia . Its capital wasTashkent , population about 5,000,000.In 1924 it was split into
Turkmen SSR (nowTurkmenistan ),Uzbek SSR (nowUzbekistan ) with theTajik ASSR (nowTajikistan ),Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast (nowKyrgyzstan ), andKarakalpak Autonomous Oblast (nowKarakalpakstan ).Fact|date=August 2007ee also
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Basmachi
*Soviet Central Asia
*U.S.S.R.
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