Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan
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Azərbaycan Xalq Cümhuriyyəti Azərbaycan Demokratik Respublikası آذربایجان جومهوریتی |
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Motto Bir kərə yüksələn bayraq bir daha enməz! The flag once raised will never fall! |
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Anthem Azərbaycan Marşı March of Azerbaijan |
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 Map of Azerbaijan including disputed territories with Armenia and Georgia issued in Baku for Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
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Ganja (until Sep 1918) Baku |
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| Languages | Azerbaijani | |||||||||
| Government | Parliamentary republic | |||||||||
| Prime Minister | ||||||||||
| • | 1918–1919 | Fatali Khan Khoyski | ||||||||
| • | 1919–1920 | Nasib Yusifbeyli | ||||||||
| • | 1920 | Mammad Hasan Hajinski | ||||||||
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| • | 1918 | Mammed Amin Rasulzade | ||||||||
| • | 1918–1920 | Alimardan Topchubashev | ||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | |||||||||
| • | Independence | 28 May 1918 | ||||||||
| • | Soviet invasion | 28 April 1920 | ||||||||
| Area | ||||||||||
| • | 1918 | 99,908.87 km² (38,575 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | ||||||||||
| • | 1918 est. | 2,862,000 | ||||||||
| Currency | Azerbaijani manat | |||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Armenia Azerbaijan
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The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR; Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Demokratik Respublikası - آذربایجان دمکراتیک جومهوریتی) also known as Azerbaijan People's Republic (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Xalq Cümhuriyyəti - آذربایجان خلق جومهوریتی) was the third democratic republic in the Turkic world and Muslim world, after the Crimean People's Republic and Idel-Ural Republic. The ADR was founded by the Azerbaijani National Council in Tiflis on 28 May 1918 after the collapse of the Russian Empire. Its established borders were with Russia to the north, the Democratic Republic of Georgia to the north-west, the First Republic of Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south. It had a population of 2.86 million.Ganja was the temporary capital of the Republic as Baku was under Bolshevik control. The name of "Azerbaijan" which the leading Musavat party adopted, for political reasons, was, prior to the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918, exclusively used to identify the adjacent region of contemporary northwestern Iran.
Under the ADR, a government system was developed in which a Parliament elected on the basis of universal, free, and proportionate representation was the supreme organ of state authority; the Council of Ministers was held responsible before it. Fatali Khan Khoyski became its first prime minister. Besides the Musavat majority, Ahrar, Ittihad, Muslim Social Democrats as well as representatives of Armenian (21 out of 120 seats), Russian, Polish, Jewish and German minorities gained seats in the parliament. Some members supported Pan-Islamist and Pan-Turkist ideas.
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