[MANUSCRIPT / THE PROVISIONAL NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE SOUTHWESTERN CAUCASUS] Autograph historical document signed by the Minister of Internal Affairs of the State "Ali Riza", describing the aim of the new state, with bilingual and negative stamps...

ALI RIZA (Minister of Internal Affairs of the Provisional National Government of South West Caucasia), Manuscript, [1919]. [MANUSCRIPT / THE PROVISIONAL NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE SOUTHWESTERN CAUCASUS] Autograph historical document signed by the Minister of Internal Affairs of the State "Ali Riza", describing the aim of the new state, with bilingual and negative stamps on paper, in 1919. Original autograph manuscript on paper. Oblong: (17x21 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 8 lines on 1 page. Folded in half. An important historically significant document of the credentials of the Provisional National Government of the Southwestern Caucasus, or the Kars Republic, established in 1918. It was a short-lived nominally-independent provisional government based in Kars, northeastern Turkey. Born in the wake of the Armistice of Mudros that ended World War I in the Middle East, it existed from December 1, 1918, until April 19, 1919, when it was abolished by British High