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Battle of Baku 1918
Part of the Armenian–Azerbaijani War in the Caucasus Campaign of World War I & Southern Front of the Russian Civil War

Ottoman artillery bombarding the city.
Date26 August 1918 – 14 September 1918[1]
Location
Baku, Azerbaijan
40°27′N 49°47′E / 40.450°N 49.783°E / 40.450; 49.783
Result

Ottoman-Azerbaijani victory

  • Baku becomes the capital of Azerbaijan
Belligerents
Battle of Baku Ottoman Empire
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Azerbaijan

Until 26 July:
Battle of Baku Baku Commune
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Russian SFSR
From 26 July:
Battle of Baku Centrocaspian Dictatorship

  • Battle of Baku Armenian Revolutionary Federation
Battle of Baku United Kingdom
Russia White Russians
Commanders and leaders
Ottoman Empire Enver Pasha
Ottoman Empire Nuri Pasha
Ottoman Empire Mursel Bey
Ottoman Empire Suleyman Izzet Bey
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Ali-Agha Shikhlinski
Until 26 July:
Battle of Baku Stepan Shaumian Executed
Battle of Baku Grigory Korganov Executed
From 26 July:
Battle of Baku Georgy Dokuchaev[2]
Battle of Baku Yakov Bagratuni
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Lionel Dunsterville
Battle of Baku Hamazasp Srvandztyan[3]
Strength
Ottoman Empire Islamic Army of the Caucasus
14,000 infantry
500 cavalry
40 guns[1]
Battle of Baku Baku Army
20,000 infantry.[4]
40 guns[1]
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Dunsterforce
1,000 infantry
1 artillery battery
3 machine gun section
3 armored cars
2 Martinsyde G.100 planes[1]
Russia Bicherakhov detachment
6,000[1]
Casualties and losses
Ottoman Empire 2,000 killed/wounded[1] Battle of Baku 5,000 killed/wounded
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 200 killed/wounded[1]

The Battle of Baku (Azerbaijani: Bakı döyüşü, Turkish: Bakü Muharebesi, Russian: Битва за Баку) took place in August and September 1918 between the Ottoman–Azerbaijani coalition forces led by Nuri Pasha and Bolshevik–ARF Baku Soviet forces, later succeeded by the British–Armenian–White Russian forces led by Lionel Dunsterville and saw Soviet Russia briefly re-enter the war. The battle took place during World War I, was a conclusive part of the Caucasus Campaign, but a beginning of the Armenian–Azerbaijani War.[5][6]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Cite error: The named reference caven was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Lionel Dunsterville Diary". www.gwpda.org.
  3. ^ Anastas Mikoyan. Так было. Moscow: Vagrius, 1999; Ch. 2.
  4. ^ Battle of Baku 6,000 regulars
    Lisa Smedman. Dunsterforce. Vancouver Courier newspaper.
  5. ^ Yale, William (1968) Near East: A Modern History p. 247
  6. ^ Dadyan, Khatchatur(2006) Armenians and Baku, p. 118

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