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  1. Kurdish town in Azerbaijan, W Iran,
  2. population (1983) 63,000. Occupied by Russian
  3. troops in 1941, it formed the centre of a
  4. short-lived Kurdish republic (1945-46) before
  5. being reoccupied by the Iranians. In the
  6. 1980s Mahabad was the focal point of
  7. resistance by Iranian Kurds against the
  8. Islamic republic.
  9.