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After more than 80 years of being part of the Russian Empire in the Caucasus, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was established in 1918. The name "Azerbaijan", adopted by the ruling Musavat Party for political reasons, [14] [15] had been used to identify the adjacent region of northwestern Iran.
The name Azerbaijan was first adopted by the government of Musavat in 1918 [38] after the collapse of the Russian Empire, when the independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was established.
Plaque on palace of the former Viceroy in Tbilisi commemorating the establishment of the First Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. After the dissolution of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, members of the defunct Seim's Muslim Faction (i.e. Muslim National Council) [20] convened an emergency meeting to discuss the current political situation on 27 May 1918.
The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, [b] [c] also known as the Azerbaijan People's Republic, [d] was the first secular democratic republic in the Turkic and Muslim worlds. [10] The ADR was founded by the Azerbaijani National Council in Tiflis on 28 May 1918 after the collapse of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, and ceased to exist on April 28, 1920. [11]
When the republic dissolved in May 1918, the leading Musavat party adopted the name "Azerbaijan" for the newly established Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, which was proclaimed on 27 May 1918, [102] for political reasons, [103] [104] even though the name of "Azerbaijan" had been used to refer to the adjacent region of contemporary northwestern Iran.
On 28 September 1991, the Republic of Indonesia recognized the independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan. On 24 September 1992, diplomatic relations were established between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Indonesia. Azerbaijan has an embassy in Jakarta. Indonesia has an embassy in Baku.
History of Baku. Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan Republic, which was also the capital of Shirvan (during the reigns of Akhsitan I and Khalilullah I), Baku Khanate, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and Azerbaijan SSR and the administrative center of Russian Baku governorate. Baku is derived from the old Persian Bagavan, which translates to "City ...
[1] [2] 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, [5] which also followed a pan-Turkist discourse. [6]