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Mammad Amin Rasulzade

Died in 1955

Mammad Amin Rasulzade was born on 31 January 1884 in Novkhani, near Baku, into a mullah's family, and attended the Russo-Tatar school. In 1902 he founded a Muslim youth organisation, then in 1904 the social-democratic party Hummet, and edited several newspapers. Having moved to Persia, he launched the newspaper Iran-e Now there in 1910. Founder of the Musavat in 1913, he chaired the National Council that proclaimed the independence of Azerbaijan in 1918. After the Bolshevik occupation, he lived in Moscow and then made his way to Turkey, and died in Ankara on 6 March 1955.

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