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Battle of Baku
1918 battle between Ottoman–Azerbaijani forces and Bolshevik–Dashnak forces / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Part of the Armenian–Azerbaijani War in the Caucasus Campaign of World War I & Southern Front of the Russian Civil War | |||||||||
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