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Name: Ottoman Invasion of Armenia

Type: Event

Start: 1920 AD

End: 1921 AD

Parent: Russian Civil War

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Was an Ottoman military invasion of Armenia, part of the Turkish-Armenian war and also of the Caucasian theatre of the Russian Civil War.

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  • October 1920: The city of Kars came under full Turkish occupation.
  • September 1920: Turks entered Sarıkamış.
  • November 1920: Turkish forces continued to advance in Armenia, and a week after the capture of Kars, they took control of Alexandropol.
  • March 1921: Treaty of Moscow: the Turkish authorities proclaimed the annexation of Batumi.
  • September 1920: At 2:30 in the morning of September 13, five battalions from the Turkish XV Army Corps crossed the Turkish-Armenian border and surprised the thinly spread and unprepared Armenian armies at Olti and Peniak.
  • November 1920: The Turks captured the strategic village of Aghin.
  • March 1921: Georgian Defense Minister Grigol Lordkipanidze and the Soviet plenipotentiary Avel Enukidze arranged an armistice on 17 March, and then, on 18 March, an agreement. The Democratic Republic of Georgia ceased to exist.
  • March 1921: The battle for Batumi ended with the port and most of the city in Georgian hands.

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