Tibet (1912–51)

Tibet
བོད་ Bod
Unrecognized state Territory of the Republic of China (1928-51)
1912–1951
Flag of Tibet
Location of Tibet in 1942
Capital		Lhasa
Languages		Tibetan, Tibetic languages
Religion		Buddhism
Government		Buddhist theocraticabsolute monarchy
Dalai Lama
•	1912–1933	Thubten Gyatso (first)
•	1937–1951	Tenzin Gyatso (last)
Historical era		20th Century
•	Three Point Agreement, Proclamation	July 1912
•	13th Dalai Lama returns	1913
•	Placed under ROC Administration	1928
•	Nationalist government moved to Taiwan	7 December 1949
•	Battle of Chamdo	23 May 1951
•	Seventeen Point Agreement	1950
•	Dissolved	24 October 1951
Currency		Tibetan skar, Tibetan srang, Tibetan tangka
Preceded by Succeeded by Tibet under Qing rule Tibet Area (administrative division)
Today part of		China

Flag of Tibet

The historical era of Tibet from 1912 to 1951 is marked following the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1912, and lasted until the incorporation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China. The Tibetan Ganden Phodrang regime was under Qing rule until 1912, when the Provisional Government of the Republic of China replaced the Qing dynasty as the government of China, and signed a treaty with the Qing government inheriting all territories of the previous dynasty into the new republic, giving Tibet the status of an "Area" with extremely high levels of autonomy as how it was treated by the previous dynasty. However at the same time, several Tibetan representatives signed a treaty between Tibet and Mongolia proclaiming mutual recognition and their independence from China, although the Government of the Republic of China did not recognize the legitimacy of the treaty. With the high levels of autonomy and the "proclaiming of independence" by several Tibetan representatives, this period of Tibet is often described as "de facto independent", especially by some Tibetan independence supporters, although most countries of the world, as well as the United Nations, recognized Tibet as a part of the Republic of China.