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[1] Location Baku, Azerbaijan 40°27′N 49°47′E / 40.450°N 49.783°E / 40.450; 49.783 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[2] Yakov Bagratuni Lionel Dunsterville Hamazasp Srvandztyan[3]
Strength
Islamic Army of the Caucasus 14,000 infantry 500 cavalry 40 guns[1]	Baku Army 20,000 infantry.[4] 40 guns[1] Dunsterforce 1,000 infantry 1 artillery battery 3 machine gun section 3 armored cars 2 Martinsyde G.100 planes[1] Bicherakhov detachment 6,000[1]
Casualties and losses
2,000 killed/wounded[1]	5,000 killed/wounded 200 killed/wounded[1]

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]