1946 | ASH 1324-Azerbaijan People’s Government Banknotes

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The Azerbaijan People’s Government (APG; Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Milli Hökuməti; Persian: حکومت خودمختار آذربایجان‎; Russian: Азербайджанское народное правительство, romanized: Azerbajdžanskoje narodnoje praviteljstvo) was a short-lived unrecognized secessionist state, in northern Iran from November 1945 to December 1946. Established in Iranian Azerbaijan, the APG’s capital was the city of Tabriz. Its establishment and demise were a part of the Iran crisis, which was a precursor to the Cold War.