Occupation of Lazistan Sanjak

Occupation of Lazistan Sanjak
Part of Caucasus campaign
Date1916–1921
Location
Lazistan Sanjak (modern-day Rize and Artvin provinces, Turkey)
Result Initial Russian and Allied victory, eventual withdrawal
Territorial
changes
Incorporation of Lazistan into Russian-occupied Western Armenia, later incorporation into the Republic of Turkey[1]
Belligerents

 Ottoman Empire

  • Chechen volunteers
  • Circassian volunteers

 Russian Empire

  • Armenian Legion
  • Pontic Greeks
  • United Kingdom
  • France
  • Italy
Commanders and leaders

Cevat Çobanlı
Kazım Karabekir

Enver Pasha

Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich
Nikolai Yudenich
Lionel Dunsterville

Tsar Nicholas II

The Occupation of Lazistan Sanjak refers to the period during and after World War I when the Lazistan Sanjak, an administrative region of the Ottoman Empire located on the southeastern coast of the Black Sea, was occupied by foreign powers, primarily Russia and later the Allied Powers.

  1. ^ Zürcher, Erik J. (2004). Turkey: A Modern History. I.B. Tauris. pp. 156–160. ISBN 9781860649585.