Armenian-Azerbaijani War
| Armenian–Azerbaijani War | |||||||||
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| Part of World War I and the Russian Civil War | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 First Republic of Armenia Republic of Mountainous ArmeniaArmenian militia Battle of Baku only:  United Kingdom Centrocaspian Dictatorship
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 Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Ottoman EmpireAfter April 1920:  Russian SFSR Turkish Revolutionaries Azerbaijan SSR
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Andranik Ozanian Drastamat Kanayan
Lionel Dunsterville
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Samedbey Mehmandarov Khosrov bey Sultanov
Anatoliy Gekker
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Dunsterforce (1,000 elite British troops) |
Unknown | ||||||||
The Armenian–Azerbaijani War, which started after the Russian Revolution, was a series of brutal and hard-to-classify conflicts in 1918, then from 1920–22 that occurred during the brief independence of Armenia and Azerbaijan and afterwards. Most of the conflicts did not have a principal pattern with a standard armed structure. The Ottoman Empire and British Empire were involved in different capacities: the Ottoman Empire left the region after the Armistice of Mudros but British influence continued until Dunsterforce was pulled back in the 1920s. The conflicts involved civilians in the disputed districts of Kazakh-Shamshadin, Zanghezur, Nakhchivan and Karabakh. The use of guerrilla and semi-guerrilla operations was the main reason for the high civilian casualties, which occurred during the nation-building activities of the newly established states.
The reasons behind the conflict are still far from being resolved after nearly a century. The story of this campaign has very different perceptions from Armenian and Azerbaijani viewpoints. According to Armenian historians, the First Republic of Armenia aimed to include Nakhchivan among the basic (Eastern Armenian) territories of the Erivan Governorate, as well as the eastern and southern parts of the Elisabethpol Governorate.
The first clashes between the Armenians and Azeris took place in Baku in February 1905. Soon the conflict spilled over to other parts of the Caucasus, and on August 5, 1905, the first conflict between the Armenian and Azeri population of Shusha took place.
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