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Central-Caspian Dictatorship Centro-Caspian Dictatorship | |||||||||
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| 1918 | |||||||||
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 Area controlled by the Centrocaspian Dictatorship in August 1918 | |||||||||
| Capital | Baku | ||||||||
| Common languages | Russian Azerbaijani | ||||||||
| Government | Military dictatorship | ||||||||
| Historical era | World War I | ||||||||
• July 26 Baku Coup d'état | 26 July 1918 | ||||||||
| 26 August 1918 | |||||||||
• Liberation of Baku | 15 September 1918 | ||||||||
| 30 October 1918 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Azerbaijan | ||||||||
TheCentro-Caspian Dictatorship, also known as theCentral-Caspian Dictatorship (Russian:Диктатура Центрокаспия,romanized: Diktatura Tsentrokaspiya,Azerbaijani:Sentrokaspi Diktaturası), was a short-lived anti-Soviet administration proclaimed in the city ofBaku duringWorld War I.[1] Created from an alliance of theSocialist Revolutionary Party andMensheviks, it replaced theBaku Commune in the bloodless July 26 Baku Coup d'état of 1918,[2] and fell on 15 September 1918, when a coalition ofOttoman-Azerbaijani forces captured Baku.[3]
The Central-Caspian Dictatorship asked for British help in order to stop the advancingOttomanIslamic Army of the Caucasus that was marching towards Baku. A small British force under GeneralLionel Dunsterville was sent to Baku and helped the mainly Dashnak-Armenian forces to defend the capital during theBattle 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 theArmistice of Mudros on 30 October 1918, aBritish occupational force re-entered Baku.
