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The first use of the term "South Ossetia" is recorded in the 19th century, after the territory of South Ossetia, along with the rest of Georgia, became part of Russian Empire. Following the breakdown of the Tsarist regime in Russia, Ossetians allied with the Russian Bolsheviks, fighting a war against the newly independent Menshevik Georgia.
The South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast declared independence from Georgia SSR in July 1990. The Georgian government attempted to assert its control in South Ossetia, and on January 5, 1991, the National Guard of Georgia entered Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital, and fighting
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Until then, "North Ossetia" was referred to simply as Ossetia, and "South Ossetia" as Kartli or Samachablo. The term "South Ossetia" became widespread only after the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast was established within the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic by the Soviet administration under pressure from Kavburo (the Caucasian Bureau of the ...
South Ossetia war (1991–1992) Georgia South Ossetia Supported by: Russia: 5 January 1991: 24 June 1992: The separatist conflict leads to South Ossetia's de facto independence from Georgia. 1,000 killed [20] 1991–1992 Georgian coup d'état: Rebel factions of National Guard. Mkhedrioni And other paramilitaries Supported by: Russia
South Ossetia declared independence from Georgia during the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War on 29 May 1992, with its Constitution referring to the "Republic of South Ossetia". [7] [8] [9] Abkhazia declared its independence after its war with Georgia in 1992–1993. [10] Its Constitution was adopted on 26 November 1994. [11] [12]
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During the early stages of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the government of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, which, established in 1922, did not want to be part of an independent Georgia due to cultural, linguistic, nationalistic and religious differences, but was set to become part of an independent Georgia due to its status as an autonomous oblast of the Georgian SSR.