Battle of Baku

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.
Date	26 August 1918 – 14 September 1918
Location	Baku, Azerbaijan40°27′N 49°47′E
Result	Ottoman-Azerbaijani victory Baku becomes the capital of Azerbaijan;
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire; Azerbaijan	Until 26 July:; Baku Commune; Russian SFSR; From 26 July:; Centrocaspian Dictatorship Armenian Revolutionary Federation; United Kingdom; White Russians
Commanders and leaders
Enver Pasha; Nuri Pasha; Mursel Bey; Suleyman Izzet Bey; Ali-Agha Shikhlinski	Until 26 July:; Stepan Shaumian ; Grigory Korganov ; From 26 July:; Georgy Dokuchaev; Yakov Bagratuni; Lionel Dunsterville; Hamazasp Srvandztyan
Strength
Islamic Army of the Caucasus; 14,000 infantry; 500 cavalry; 40 guns	Baku Army; 20,000 infantry.; 40 guns; Dunsterforce; 1,000 infantry; 1 artillery battery; 3 machine gun section; 3 armored cars; 2 Martinsyde G.100 planes; Bicherakhov detachment; 6,000
Casualties and losses
2,000 killed/wounded	5,000 killed/wounded; 200 killed/wounded

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.

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