Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–1907

The Armenian-Tatar massacres (also known as the Armenian-Tartar War and the Armeno-Tartar War) refers to the bloody inter-ethnic confrontation between the Armenians and Caucasian Tartars (modern Azerbaijanis) throughout the Caucasus in 1905—1907.

Armeno-Tartar War
A Cossack military patrol near the Baku oilfields, ca. 1905.
Date February 1905 - 1907 Location Baku; Nakhichevan; Shusha; Tiflis; Russian Empire Result Violence quelled by intervention of Cossack regiments

The massacres started during the Russian Revolution of 1905, and claimed hundreds of lives. The most violent clashes occurred in 1905 in February in Baku, in May in Nakhichevan, in August in Shusha and in November in Ganja, heavily damaging the cities and the Baku oilfields. Some violence, although of lesser scale, broke out also in Tbilisi.

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  The house of a wealthy Armenian burnt down by Caucasian Tartars.
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  An Armenian church plundered and desecrated by Caucasian Tartars.
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  Monument in memory of the victims of 1905-1906 Armenian-Tatar Massacres in Berdadzor, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

Bibliography

• Thomas De Waal (2004), Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War, NYU Press, ISBN 978-0-8147-1945-9

External links

• Armenianhouse.org Villari, Luigi. Fire and Sword in the Caucasus