Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR; ) also known as Azerbaijan People's Republic was the second democratic republic in the Turkic world and Muslim world, after the Crimean People's 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.