Caucasus Campaign

Caucasus Campaign

Part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I

Russian trenches at the Battle of Sarikamish.

Date	October 24, 1914 – October 30, 1918 (4 years and 6 days)
Location	Armenian Highlands, South Caucasus
Result	Armenian Genocide Foundation of new states in the Caucasus region Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Central Powers-Russian) Treaty of Poti (German-Georgian) Treaty of Batum (Ottoman-Armenian) Treaty of Sèvres (Ottoman-Allied)

Belligerents

Russian Empire (1914–17)
Armenia
(1918)
United Kingdom (1918)
Central Caspian Dictatorship (1918)

Russian SFSR (1918)

Baku Commune (1918)

Ottoman Empire
Azerbaijan (1918)
German Empire (1914–17)

German Empire (1918)

Georgia (1918)

Commanders and leaders

Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich
Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov
Nikolai Yudenich
Andranik Ozanian
Aram Manukian
Drastamat Kanayan
Tovmas Nazarbekian
Movses Silikyan
Lionel Dunsterville

Stepan Shahumyan

Enver Pasha
Vehip Pasha
Kerim Pasha
Nuri Pasha
Samad bey Mehmandarov
Ali-Agha Shikhlinski
Friedrich von Kressenstein
Ilia Odishelidze

Giorgi Kvinitadze

Units involved

•Russian Caucasus Army
•Armenian volunteer units

•Dunsterforce

•3rd Army
•2nd Army
•Army of Islam
•Azerbaijani Armed Forces

German Expeditionary force

Strength

Russian Empire:
1914: 160,000
1916.9: 702,000

Total: 1,000,000

308,660 men

1918: 3,000

Casualties and losses

140,000+ casualties (up to September 1916)

200+

300,000 casualties (up to March 1917)

Russian Empire (1914–17)
Armenia
(1918)
United Kingdom (1918)
Central Caspian Dictatorship (1918)

Russian SFSR (1918)

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