German Caucasus expedition

German Caucasus Expedition
Part of the Caucasus Campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
Turkish Georgian Wars
Date 8 June – October 1918 Location South Caucasus Result Ottoman-German withdrew Territorial changes Turkish advance Into the Democratic Republic of Georgia stalled temporarily.
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Germany Georgia	Russian SFSR
Commanders and leaders
Enver Pasha Wehib Pasha	F. K. von Kressenstein Giorgi Kvinitadze Ilia Odishelidze	Unknown
Strength
Third Army	3,000	22,000

The German Caucasus expedition was a military expedition sent in late May 1918, by the German Empire to the formerly Russian Transcaucasia during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I. Its prime aim was to stabilize the pro-German Democratic Republic of Georgia and to secure oil supplies for Germany by preventing the Ottoman Empire from gaining access to the oil reserves near Baku on the Absheron Peninsula.