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IV. 1921 - 1924 Caucasus "independent"! Caucasian countries
Reza Khan raises to get "independence"
Power from Soviet Russia
Registered letter from Azarbadjan in 1923
A&. the traditional mail exchange between Baku and Enzeli by sea had been discontinued mail between
Azarbadjan and Persia had to go by train via Djulfa

From Baku 11 September 1923 by train (Baku voksal) via Djulfa exchange office and via Tabriz (faint
cancellation) to Kazvin
History: The three Caucasian republics under Russia, Annenia, Georgia and Azarbadjan were independent between 1917 and 1923.
In June 1922 after all the three countries had installed with Soviet "support• communist regimes they fonned
the Trans-Caucasian Soviet Republic