Azerbaijan People's Government

The Azerbaijan People's Government (Azerbaijani: آذربایجان میللی حکومتی - 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.

Azerbaijan People's Government
آذربایجان میللی حکومتی
1945–1946
Flag
Coat of arms
Anthem: Anthem of the Azerbaijan People's Government
Location of the Azerbaijan People's Government
StatusPuppet state of the Soviet Union
CapitalTabriz
Common languagesAzerbaijani
GovernmentMarxist-Leninist one-party state
President 
 1945–46
Ja'far Pishevari
Historical eraCold War
 Established
November 1945
 Disestablished
December 1946
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Imperial State of Iran
Imperial State of Iran
Today part ofIran
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