Battle of Baku

Infobox military conflict | conflict = Battle of Baku | partof = the Armenian–Azerbaijani War in the Caucasus Campaign of World War I & Southern Front of the Russian Civil War | image = Baku az vs.jpg | image_size = 300px | caption = Ottoman artillery bombarding the city. | place = Baku, Azerbaijan | coordinates = | date = 26 August 1918 – 14 September 1918 | result = Ottoman-Azerbaijani victory Baku becomes the capital of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic | combatant1 = Azerbaijan | combatant2 = Until 26 July: Baku CommuneFrom 26 July: Centrocaspian Dictatorship Armenian Revolutionary Federation White Russians | commander1 = Nuri Pasha Mürsel Bey Süleyman Izzet Bey Ali-Agha Shikhlinski | commander2 = Stepan Shaumian Grigory Korganov Georgy Dokuchaev Yakov Bagratuni Lionel Dunsterville Hamazasp Srvandztyan | strength1 = Islamic Army of the Caucasus14,000 infantry500 cavalry40 guns | strength2 = Baku Army20,000 infantry.40 guns Dunsterforce1,000 infantry1 artillery battery3 machine gun section3 armored cars2 Martinsyde G.100 planes Bicherakhov detachment6,000 | casualties1 = 2,000 | casualties2 = Baku Army: 5,000 British Empire: 200 |campaignbox= The Battle of Baku (Bakı döyüşü, Bakü Muharebesi, Битва за Баку) was a battle in World War I that took place between August–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 was fought as a conclusive part of the Caucasus Campaign, but as a beginning of the Armenian–Azerbaijani War. In 1917, the Russian Caucasus Front collapsed following the abdication of the Tsar. On 9 March 1917, the Special Transcaucasian Committee was established to fill the administrative gap in areas occupied in the course of the war on the Caucasian front by the Russian Provisional Government in the Transcaucasia. This administration, which included representatives of Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian groups, did not last long.