Republic of Mahabad

Republic of Mahabad
کۆماری کوردستان (Kurdish)
جمهوری مهاباد (Persian)
1946
Coat of arms of Mahabad
Coat of arms
Anthem: ئەی ڕەقیب
Ey Reqîb
"Oh, enemy!"
The boundaries of the Republic of Mahabad[1]
The boundaries of the Republic of Mahabad[1]
StatusUnrecognized[2]
puppet state of the Soviet Union[3][4]
CapitalMahabad
Common languagesKurdish
GovernmentSocialist republic
President 
• 1946
Qazi Muhammad (KDPI)
Prime Minister 
• 1946
Haji Baba Sheikh (KDPI)
Historical eraCold War
• Autonomy declared
22 January 1946
• Soviet withdrawal
June 1946
• Iran reestablishes control
15 December 1946
• Leaders executed
31 March 1947
CurrencySoviet ruble
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Pahlavi Iran
Pahlavi Iran
Today part ofIran

The Republic of Mahabad, also referred to as the Republic of Kurdistan[5][6][7][8] (Kurdish: کۆماری کوردستان, romanized: Komara Kurdistanê; Persian: جمهوری مهاباد), was a short-lived Kurdish self-governing unrecognized state in present-day Iran,[9][10] from 22 January to 15 December 1946. The Republic of Mahabad, a puppet state of the Soviet Union, arose alongside the Azerbaijan People's Government, a similarly short-lived unrecognized Soviet puppet state.[3][4]

The capital of the Republic of Mahabad was Mahabad in northwestern Iran. The state encompassed a small territory, including Mahabad and the adjacent cities of Bukan, Oshnavieh, Piranshahr and Naghadeh.[11] The republic moreover claimed the three cities of Urmia, Khoy and Salmas held by the Azerbaijan People's Government.[12]

  1. ^ Nerwiy, Hawar Khalil Taher (2012). The Republic of Kurdistan, 1946 (PDF) (Thesis). University of Leiden. p. 13. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  2. ^ Nina Caspersen, Gareth Stansfield (2012), Unrecognized States in the International System, Exeter Studies in Ethno Politics, Routledge, p. 5, ISBN 978-1-136-84999-2
  3. ^ a b Frederik Coene (2009), The Caucasus – An Introduction, Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series, Routledge, p. 136, ISBN 978-1-135-20302-3, As a result, the People's Republic of Azerbaijan and the Kurdish People's Republic (the Republic of Mahabad), two short-lived Soviet puppet states, were set up late in 1945...
  4. ^ a b Donald Newton Wilber (2014). Iran, Past and Present: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic. Princeton University Press. p. 136. ISBN 978-1-4008-5747-0. In December the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, announced the establishment of an autonomous state of Azerbaijan, and at the same time the Russians set up another puppet state, the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad, also in Azerbaijan.
  5. ^ Nerwiy, Hawar Khalil Taher (2012). The Republic of Kurdistan, 1946 (PDF) (Thesis). University of Leiden. p. 13. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  6. ^ STANSFIELD, GARETH (March 2013). "The unravelling of the post-First World War state system? The Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the transformation of the Middle East". International Affairs. 89 (2): 259–282. doi:10.1111/1468-2346.12017. ISSN 0020-5850.
  7. ^ Taher, Hawar Kh. (2017-03-30). "پێگه‌هێ سیاسى یێ ئیرانێ پشتى رێكه‌فتنا پێنج كو ئێك (5+1)". Humanities Journal of University of Zakho. 5 (1): 35. doi:10.26436/2017.5.1.153. ISSN 2410-7557.
  8. ^ Ahmadzadeh, Hashim (March 2006). "Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds, Shahrzad Mojab, ed., Kurdish Studies Series, No. 3, Costa Mesa and California: Mazda Publishers, 2001, ISBN: 1-56859-093-8, 263 pp". Iranian Studies. 39 (1): 118–121. doi:10.1017/s0021086200022763. ISSN 0021-0862. S2CID 245663931.
  9. ^ Romano, David (2006). The Kurdish Nationalist Movement: Opportunity, Mobilization and Identity. Cambridge Middle East studies, 22. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-521-85041-4. OCLC 61425259.
  10. ^ Chelkowski, Peter J.; Pranger, Robert J. (1988). Ideology and Power in the Middle East: Studies in Honor of George Lenczowski. Durham: Duke University Press. p. 399. ISBN 978-0-8223-0781-5. OCLC 16923212.
  11. ^ McDowall 2004, pp. 244–245.
  12. ^ Vali, Abbas (2014). Kurds and the State in Iran: The Making of Kurdish Identity. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 43.

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