battle, interwar and Second World War

Battle of Sharur

Name: Battle of Sharur
Location: Azerbaijan

Battle of Sharur was a battle fought in 1919 in what is now Azerbaijan. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at its recorded location. It was part of the Aras War. The recorded result: Armenian victory. Recorded strength: 18,000 against In Sharur–Nakhichevan: 6,000–10,000In Vedibasar:1,500.

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Fought1919

WhereAzerbaijan39.551N, 44.992E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeArmenian victory

BelligerentsArmenian army; Armenian Revolutionary Federation; Armed Forces of South Russia (arms shipments)againstMuslims: Azerbaijanis; Turks; Kurds; Azerbaijan (arms shipments, instructors, officers); Turkish revolutionaries (arms shipments, instructors, officers)

Part ofAras War1919

Record

Date	1919 (year precision)
Place	Azerbaijan 39.551N, 44.992E
Kind	Battle, interwar and Second World War
Strength	18,000	In Sharur–Nakhichevan: 6,000–10,000In Vedibasar:1,500
Casualties and losses	In Sharur–Nakhichevan: 6,000–12,000 Armenian civiliansIn Vedibasar:4,000 Armenian soldiers	Unknown
Commanders	Drastamat Kanayan Hovhannes Hakhverdyan Sebouh Nersesian	Halil Sami Bey Jafargulu Khan Nakhchivanski

Placed at its recorded location; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Avarayr AD 451, 24 km S
Battle of Nakhchivan 1919, 52 km SE
Siege of Abbasabad 1827, 56 km SE
Battle of Artaxata 68 BC, 59 km NW
Siege of Dvin AD 927, 62 km NW

In the same war

After: Battle of Nakhchivan June 1919

Elsewhere in 1919

Scuttling of the German Fleet in Scapa Flow United Kingdom
Battle of Cēsis Latvia
Greek landing at Smyrna Turkey
Battle of Paju Estonia
Battle of Bereza Kartuska Belarus

Battle of Sharur is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 60 in present-day Azerbaijan.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q131340434, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Sharur (1919), revision 1378453957, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.