The Cherkess Autonomous Oblast (Russian: Черкесская автономная область) was an autonomous oblast of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, created in 1926, by the split of the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Oblast and dissolved in 1957 by the creation of the new Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Oblast.
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“Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)