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In late December 1991, the armed opposition and the rebel factions of the National Guard launched military coup in Tbilisi against Gamsakhurdia, leading to some Georgian paramilitaries departing from South Ossetia to Tbilisi. During the Tbilisi coup, violence in South Ossetia was limited to sporadic gunfire outside Tskhinvali.
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
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
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 ...
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The 1991–1992 Georgian coup d'état, also known as the Tbilisi War, or the Putsch of 1991–1992, was an internal military conflict that took place in the newly independent Republic of Georgia following the fall of the Soviet Union, from 22 December 1991 to 6 January 1992. The coup, which triggered the Georgian Civil War, pitted factions of ...