Azerbaijan People's Government
Azerbaijan People's Government | |||||||||
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| 1945–1946 | |||||||||
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| Anthem: Yaşa, yaşa Azərbaycan! "Long Live Azerbaijan!" | |||||||||
Location of the Azerbaijan People's Government | |||||||||
| Status | Puppet state of the Soviet Union | ||||||||
| Capital | Tabriz | ||||||||
| Common languages | Azerbaijani | ||||||||
| Government | Marxist-Leninist one-party state | ||||||||
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• 1945–46 | Ja'far Pishevari | ||||||||
| Historical era | Cold War | ||||||||
• Established | 20 November 1945 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 12 December 1946 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Iran | ||||||||
The Azerbaijan People's Government (Azerbaijani: آذربایجان میللی حؤکومتی - Azərbaycan Milli Hökuməti; Persian: حکومت خودمختار آذربایجان) was a short-lived unrecognized secessionist state in northern Iran from November 1945 to December 1946. Like the unrecognized Republic of Mahabad, it was a puppet state of the Soviet Union. Established in Iranian Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijan People's Government capital was the city of Tabriz. It was headed by an ethno-separatist and communist government led by the Azerbaijani Democratic Party, which also followed a pan-Turkist discourse. Its establishment and demise were a part of the Iran crisis, an early event in the Cold War.