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1918 anti-Soviet administration in Baku, Azerbaijan
Central-Caspian Dictatorship
Centro-Caspian Dictatorship
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![Area controlled by the Centrocaspian Dictatorship in August 1918](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Centrocaspian_dictatorship.png/250px-Centrocaspian_dictatorship.png) Area controlled by the Centrocaspian Dictatorship in August 1918
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Capital
| Baku
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Common languages
| Russian
Azerbaijani
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Government
| Military dictatorship
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Historical era
| World War I
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? July 26 Baku Coup d'etat
| 26 July 1918
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| 26 August 1918
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? Liberation of Baku
| 15 September 1918
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| 30 October 1918
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Today part of
| Azerbaijan
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The
Centro-Caspian Dictatorship
, also known as the
Central-Caspian Dictatorship
(
Russian
:
Диктатура Центрокаспия
,
Diktatura Tsentrokaspiya
) (
Azerbaijani
: Sentrokaspi Diktaturası), was a short-lived anti-
Soviet
administration proclaimed in the city of
Baku
during
World War I
.
[1]
Created from an alliance of the
Socialist Revolutionary Party
and
Mensheviks
, it replaced the
Baku Commune
in the bloodless July 26 Baku Coup d'etat of 1918,
[2]
and fell on 15 September 1918, when a coalition of
Ottoman
-
Azerbaijani
forces captured Baku.
[3]
The Central-Caspian Dictatorship asked for British help in order to stop the advancing
Ottoman
Islamic Army of the Caucasus
that was marching towards Baku. A small British force under General
Lionel Dunsterville
was sent to Baku and helped the mainly
Dashnak
-Armenian forces to defend the capital during the
Battle of Baku
. However, the Azerbaijani-Ottoman army took Baku over on 15 September 1918, which entered the capital, subsequently causing British forces to evacuate and much of the Armenian population to flee. After the Ottoman Empire signed the
Armistice of Mudros
on 30 October 1918, a
British
occupational force re-entered Baku.
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