Autonomous Governorate of Estonia
The Autonomous Governorate of Estonia of the Russian state was established as a result of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and ceased to exist prior to Estonia becoming a fully independent country in 1918.
| Governorate of Estonia Estonian: Autonoomne Eestimaa kubermang | |||||||||||
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| Autonomous entity of the Russian Republic | |||||||||||
| 1917–1918 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Reval (Tallinn) | ||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||
| • Type | Autonomous governorate | ||||||||||
| Commissar | |||||||||||
• 1917 | Jaan Poska | ||||||||||
| Legislature | Estonian Provincial Assembly | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Local autonomy | 12 April 1917 | ||||||||||
• Sovereignty declared | 28 November 1917 | ||||||||||
• Narva (including Ivangorod) added to the governorate | 3 January 1918 | ||||||||||
| 24 February 1918 | |||||||||||
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| Today part of | Estonia | ||||||||||
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