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An autonomous republic is a type of administrative division similar to a province or state. A significant number of autonomous republics can be found within the successor states of the Soviet Union, but the majority are located within Russia. Many of these republics were established during the Soviet period as Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics, or ASSRs.[1]
- ^ Unione Sovietica (1980). "The Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic". In William Bradford Simons (ed.). The Soviet Codes of Law, Issue 23. Translated by Simons, William B. Brill. p. 25. ISBN 9789028608108.