{{Short description|Autonomous republic within the Georgian SSR}} {{Infobox former subdivision | native_name = {{native name|ka|აჭარის ავტონომიური საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა}}<br>{{native name|ru|Аджарская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика}} | common_name = Adjarian ASSR | conventional_long_name = Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | subdivision = ASSR | nation = the Georgian SSR | p1 = Democratic Republic of Georgia | flag_p1 = Flag of Georgia (1918-1921).svg | s1 = Adjara | flag_s1 = Flag of the Adjarian ASSR.svg | image_flag = Flag of the Adjarian ASSR.svg | image_coat = Emblem of the Adjar ASSR.svg | flag_type = Flag<br>(1978–1990) | symbol_type = Emblem<br>(1978–1990) | image_map = Soviet-caucasus1922.png | image_map_caption = Map of the Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1922. | capital = Batumi | government_type = Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | year_start = 1921 | year_end = 1990 }}

The '''Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic''' ('''Adjarian ASSR''' or '''Adzhar ASSR'''; {{lang-ka|აჭარის ავტონომიური საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა|tr}}; {{langx|ru|Аджарская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика|translit=Adzharskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika}}) was an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union within the Georgian SSR, established on 16 July 1921.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/36cons01.html|title = 1936 CONSTITUTION OF THE USSR|date = December 1936|accessdate = 24 December 2014|publisher = Brucknell University}}</ref> On 10 December 1990, it was renamed into the Autonomous Republic of Adjara. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, it became part of the independent Georgia.

== Establishment == {{main|History of Adjara}} {{unreferenced section|date=April 2020}} After a temporary occupation by Turkish and British troops in 1918&ndash;1920, Ajaria was reunited with Georgia in 1920. A brief military conflict in March 1921 prompted the government in Ankara to cede the territory to Georgia as a consequence of Article VI of the Treaty of Kars, with the condition for autonomy to be provided for the Muslim population.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nazaroff |first=Alexander |date=1922 |title=Russia's Treaty with Turkey |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45330678 |journal=Current History |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=276–279 |jstor=45330678 |issn=2641-080X}}</ref> Accordingly, the Soviet Union established the Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on 16 July 1921. Nonetheless, Islam within the new republic, as elsewhere in the Soviet Union and in common with Christianity, was persecuted and repressed.

== See also == *Adjarian Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia

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