Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus
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| Capital | Temir-Khan-Shura (now Buynaksk) | |||||||||
| Languages | Russian · Chechen · Ingush Ossetic · Kabardian · Balkar Dagestani languages |
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| Government | Republic | |||||||||
| Historical era | World War I · Interwar period | |||||||||
| • | Independence declared | March 1917 | ||||||||
| • | Replaced by Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | June 1920 | ||||||||
| Currency | Ruble | |||||||||
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The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus (MRNC; also known as the Mountain Republic or the Republic of the Mountaineers; 1917–1920) was a short-lived state situated in the Northern Caucasus. It broke away from the Russian Empire during the February Revolution, shortly before the start of the Russian Civil War.
MRNC included most of the territory of the former Terek Oblast and Dagestan Oblast of the Russian Empire, which now form the republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia, North Ossetia–Alania, Kabardino-Balkaria, Dagestan and part of Stavropol Krai of the Russian Federation. The total land area was about 70,000 square kilometers (27,000 sq mi), with a population of about 1 million. Its capital was initially at Vladikavkaz, then Nazran, and finally Temir-Khan-Shura.
The state was captured by Soviet Russian forces in 1920, who transformed it into the Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
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