List of wars involving Azerbaijan

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History of Azerbaijan

Prehistory

Stone Age • Bronze Age • Iron Age

|  Shulaveri–Shomu culture| c.6000–c.4000 BC

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Chalcolithic culture of Nakhchivan| c.4945–c.3800 BC
Leyla-Tepe culture| c.4350–c.4000 BC
Kura–Araxes culture| c.3400–c.2000 BC
Nakhchivan culture| c.3000–c.2000 BC
Talish–Mughan culture| c.1400–c.700 BC
Khojaly–Gadabay culture| c.1300–c.700 BC

Antiquity

|  Kingdom of Iškuza| c.700 BC–c.590s BC

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Achaemenid Empire| 550 BC–330 BC
• Satrapy of Media| c.550 BC – 323 BC
Seleucid Empire| 312 BC – 63 BC
Parthian Empire| 247 BC – AD 224
Caucasian Albania| c.200 BC – c.AD 800
Roman Empire|  27 BC – AD 395

Early Middle Ages

|  Sasanian Empire|  224–651

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• Satrapy of Albania| c.252–636
Khazar Khaganate| c.650–969
Rashidun Caliphate| 632–661
• Islamic conquest| 633–654
• Arran| c.650–705
Umayyad Caliphate| 661–750
• Arran| c.650–705
• Emirate of Arminiya|  705–884
Abbasid Caliphate| 750–1258
• Emirate of Arminiya| 705–884
Shirvanshahs| 861–1538
Sajids| 889–929
Shaddadids| 951–1199
Sallarid dynasty| 919–1062

High Middle Ages

|  Seljuk Empire|  1037–1194

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Khwarazmian Empire|  1077–1231
Eldiguzids|  1135–1225
Mongol Empire| 1206–1368
Ilkhanate|  1256–1335
Chobanids|  1335–1357
Timurid Empire|  1370–1507
Qara Qoyunlu|  1374–1468
Aq Qoyunlu|  1378–1503

Early modern history

|  Safavid Iran|  1501–1736

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• Safavid Shirvan|  1501–1736
• Safavid Karabakh|  1501–1747
• Chokhur-e Sa'd|  1502–1736
Ottoman Empire|  1299–1922
• Shirvan Eyalet [az]|  1578–1607
• Ganja-Qarabagh Eyalet (I) [az]|  1588–1606
• Revan Eyalet (I) [az]|  1583–1604
• Nakhchivan Sanjak (I) [az]|  1583–1604
• Ganja-Qarabagh Eyalet (II) [az]|  1725–1735
• Revan Eyalet (II) [az]|  1724–1736
• Nakhchivan Sanjak (II) [az]|  1724–1736
• Tiflis Eyalet (II) [az]|  1723–1735
• Kazak Sanjak (II) [az]|  1723–1735
Afsharid Iran|  1736–1796
• Division of Afsharid Empire|  1747
Khanates of the Caucasus|  1604–1844
• Elisu Sultanate|  1604–1844
• Kazakh sultanate|  1605–1801
• Djaro-Belokani|  c.1600s–c.1800s
• Shaki Khanate|  1743–1819
• Ganja Khanate|  1747–1805
• Talysh Khanate|  1747–1828
• Nakhichevan Khanate|  1747–1828
• Qutqashen Sultanate|  1747–1841
• Baku Khanate|  1747–1806
• Shamshadil sultanate|  1747–1801
• Quba Khanate|  1747–1806
• Karabakh Khanate|  1748–1822
• Treaty of Kurakchay|  1805
• Shirvan Khanate|  1748–1820
Zand dynasty| 1751–1794
Qajar Iran| 1789–1925
• Fourth Russo-Persian War|  1804–1813
• Treaty of Gulistan|  1813
• Fifth Russo-Persian War|  1826–1828
• Treaty of Turkmenchay|  1828
Russian Empire|  1721–1917
• Second Russo-Persian War|  1722–1723
• Caucasus Viceroyalty|  1801–1917
• Baku Governorate|  1846–1920
• Erivan Governorate|  1849–1917
• Zakatal okrug|  1859–1918
• Elizavetpol Governorate|  1867–1920
• Special Transcaucasian Committee|  1917

Modern history

|  Transcaucasian Commissariat|  1917–1918

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• March Days|  1918
Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic|  1918
Baku Commune|  1918
Centrocaspian Dictatorship|  1918
Republic of Aras|  1918–1919
Mughan Soviet Republic|  1919
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic|  1918 - 1920
• Armenian–Azerbaijani War|  1918–1920
• Battle of Baku|  1918
• Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan|  1920
Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic|  1920–1922
• Treaty of Kars|  1921
Soviet Union|  1922–1991
• Transcaucasian SFSR|  1922–1936
• Azerbaijan SSR|  1922–1936
• Azerbaijan SSR|  1936–1991
• World War II|  1941–1945
• Black January|  1990
• Republic of Azerbaijan|  1991

Contemporary history

|  Republic of Azerbaijan|  1991–present

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• I Nagorno-Karabakh War|  1988–1994
• Bishkek Protocol|  1994
• II Nagorno-Karabakh War|  2020
• Ceasefire Agreement|  2020

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This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Azerbaijan and its predecessor states, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.

## List

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Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Results

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Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (1918–1920)
Caucasus Campaign of World War I
(1914–1918)  |  Ottoman Empire

Azerbaijan (1918)
Mountain Republic (1918)
German Empire (1914–17)

* * *

Georgia (1918)

|  Russian Empire (1914–17)

* Administration of Western Armenia

Armenia (1918)
United Kingdom (1918)
Central Caspian Dictatorship (1918)

* Dashnaktsutyun (1918)

* * *

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1918)

* Baku Commune (1918)

| Inconclusive

* Battle of Goychay
* Battle of Kurdamir
* Battle of Binagadi
* Battle of Baku

Russian Civil War
(1918–1920)  |  White movement

* * *

German Empire (1917–1918)
Ottoman Empire (1917–1918)
Azerbaijan (1918)
Finland (1918–1919)
Georgia
Austria-Hungary (1917–1918)
Ukrainian State (1918)

|  Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic
Commune of Estonia
Lithuanian SSR
Latvian SSR

| Withdrawal
Armenian–Azerbaijani War
(1918–1920)  |  Azerbaijan (until April 1920)
Ottoman Empire (1918)

Republic of Aras (1918–1919)

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Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (since April 1920)

* Soviet Azerbaijan (since April 1920)

|  Armenia

United Kingdom
Centrocaspian Dictatorship

| Sovietization
Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan
(1920)[citation needed] |  Azerbaijan |  Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

* Azerbaijani Bolsheviks

| Defeat

* Sovietization of Azerbaijan

Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan (1920–1991)
World War II
(1939–1945)  |  Soviet Union

* Soviet Azerbaijan

|  Germany

* Azerbaijani Legion

| Victory

* 800,000 Azerbaijanis fought in Soviet Army, 400,000 of whom perished.
* Up to 40,000 Azerbaijanis, mainly former POW volunteers, fought in the Wehrmacht.

Soviet–Afghan War
(1979–1989)  |  Soviet Union

* Soviet Azerbaijan

|  Afghan Mujahideen | Defeat

* Afghan Mujahideen Victory
* Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
* 10,000 Azerbaijanis fought in Soviet Army, 200 of whom perished.[1]

Republic of Azerbaijan (1991–)
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
(1988–1994)  |  Azerbaijan |  Nagorno-Karabakh

Armenia (1992–1994)

| Defeat
Armenian victory[2]
2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict[citation needed]
(2016)  |  Azerbaijan |  Nagorno-Karabakh
Armenia | Inconclusive
Inconclusive (see aftermath)

* Azerbaijan claims victory[3][4]
* Armenia claims to have successfully repelled the Azerbaijani offensive[5][6]

Second Nagorno-Karabakh war
(2020)  |  Azerbaijan |  Artsakh

Armenia

| Victory
Azerbaijani victory[7][8]
Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh
(2023)  |  Azerbaijan |  Artsakh | Victory[9]

* 2023 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement

## Peacekeeping missions

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Mission  | Start-date  | End-date  | Location  | Troops (peak)

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KFOR | 1999  | 2008  |  Kosovo | 34
MNF-I | 2003  | 2008  |  Iraq | 250
ISAF | 2008  | 2021  |  Afghanistan | 94

## See also

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* List of wars involving Russia
* List of wars involving Armenia
* List of wars involving Georgia (country)
* Military history of Azerbaijan
* List of conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan

## References

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1. ^ "Əfqanıstan müharibəsində 200-dən çox azərbaycanlı həlak olub". Azadliq Radiosu (in Azerbaijani). Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 15 February 2009. Archived from the original on 9 January 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
2. ^ "World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples – Armenia". Refworld. Minority Rights Group International. 2007. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2016. "The war ended at Ceasefire Agreement in 1994, with the Armenians of Karabakh (supported by Armenia) taking control not only of Nagorny Karabakh itself but also occupying in whole or in part seven regions of Azerbaijan surrounding the former NKAO."
3. ^ "The Nagorny Karabakh Conflict: Defaulting to War". chathamhouse.org. Chatham House. 11 July 2016. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2019. "Azerbaijan presents its operations of 2–5 April 2016 as a tactical victory and psychological breakthrough."
4. ^ Jardine, Bradley (April 2, 2018). "Armenians and Azerbaijanis commemorate two years since breakout of "April War"". EurasiaNet. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2020. "President Ilham Aliyev, for his part, posted an image on Instagram of himself wearing military fatigues with the caption, "The April War was our glorious historical victory.""
5. ^ "President Serzh Sargsyan invited a meeting of the National Security Council". president.am. Office to the President of Armenia. 12 April 2016. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2020. "....It was noted that during the military actions unleashed by Azerbaijan, the RA Armed Forces fulfilled their task. The NKR Defence Army was victorious in thwarting Azerbaijani aggression and frustrating its plans."
6. ^ Aslanian, Karlen; Movsisian, Hovannes (April 5, 2016). "Azeri Offensive In Karabakh Failed, Says Sarkisian". azatutyun.am. RFE/RL. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
7. ^ "'One nation, two states' on display as Erdogan visits Azerbaijan for Karabakh victory parade". France24. 10 December 2020. "Azerbaijan's historic win was an important geopolitical coup for Erdogan who has cemented Turkey's leading role as a powerbroker in the ex-Soviet Caucasus region."
8. ^ "Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia sign Nagorno-Karabakh peace deal". BBC. 10 November 2020. "The BBC's Orla Guerin in Baku says that, overall, the deal should be read as a victory for Azerbaijan and a defeat for Armenia."
9. ^ "Azerbaijan Says Aims For 'Peaceful Reintegration' Of Karabakh Armenians". Agence France Presse. 20 September 2023. "The offensive was seen as a major victory for Azerbaijan, which won a 2020 war with Armenia and has since sought to repopulate Karabakh."

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Wars involving Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
(1918–1920)|

* Caucasus Campaign (World War I) (1914–1918)
* Russian Civil War (1918–1920)
* Mughan clashes (1918–1919)
* Armenian–Azerbaijani War (1918–1920)
* Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan (1920)

Soviet Azerbaijan
(1920–1991)|

* Ganja revolt (1920)
* Tartar Uprising (1920)
* Lankaran Uprisings (1920–1922)
* Red Army invasion of Armenia (1920)
* Red Army invasion of Georgia (1921)
* February Uprising
* World War II (1939–1945)
* Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989)

Republic of Azerbaijan
(1991–present)|

* First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–1994)
* OPON coup d'état attempt (1995)
* Operation Eagle (2008)
* Four-Day War (2016)
* Operation Gyunnut (2018)
* Second Nagorno-Karabakh War (2020)
* Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis (2021–present)
* Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh (2023)

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