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Autonomous oblast
Administrative division in Russia, Tajikistan and the Soviet Union From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An autonomous oblast is an autonomous entity within the state which is on the oblast (province) level of the overall administrative subdivision.
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There were autonomous oblasts of the Soviet Union and later some federal subjects of Russia were autonomous oblasts: the one remaining is the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Eastern Rumelia was an autonomous province (oblast in Bulgarian, one of its official languages) of the Ottoman Empire. Serb Autonomous Regions are known as oblasts.
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