Word: transcaucasian
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Until December 30, 1922, Russia was known as the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic. At that date, however, the four principal Soviet Republics (Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, White Russia, Ukraine, Transcaucasian Federation) met at Moscow and signed a Treaty of Union setting up the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, which now embraces what might be termed Greater Russia...
...country was then annexed by Tsar Alexander I., and until 1917 formed an integral part of the Russian Empire. When the Bolshevik coup d'état took place in the same year, the Georgians, together with the Tartars and Armenians, became known under the title of the Transcaucasian Republic. Subsequently, however, Georgia was forced to form a separate State, and on May 26, 1918, her independence was proclaimed at Tiflis (her capital). The Allied and Associated Powers gave the Georgian Republic de jure recognition in 1921. But later in the year the Bolsheviki entered on the scene, put to flight...