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Definition of Autonomous Oblast
1. Noun. (misspelling ofes autonomous oblast) used because the phrase is capitalized when found in specific placenames, such as the w:Jewish Autonomous Oblast Jewish Autonomous Oblast or the w:Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. ¹
2. Noun. One of the administrative divisions of former Soviet Union created for certain “smaller” nations and characterized by following features: they were given an autonomy within a union republic or, in the RSFSR, within a krai; had a status lower than an autonomous republic; had a different titulary nation from that of their union republic/krai. Abbreviated as AO. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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