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German Caucasus expedition

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.

German Caucasus expedition
German Caucasus expedition · Bruckmann, F., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
1918
Where
South Caucasus
Era
Modern

Topics

Georgia326 BCE – today

Before and after

Georgian–Ossetian conflicts of 1918-19201918 – 1920German spring offensive1918Show on timeline

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