Atlas of Battles

commander, 4 engagements

Battles of Andranik Ozanian

Battles of Andranik Ozanian

Armenian politician and military personnel (1865-1927)

Andranik Ozanian is recorded as a commander at 4 placed engagements in the atlas between 1901 and 1918: 4 battles across 2 present-day countries, most in Turkey (3), Greece (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 2,890 km apart end to end, 963 km between engagements on average. Most belong to First Balkan War (1), World War I (1), Middle Eastern theater of World War I (1).

Battle of Holy Apostles MonasteryBattle of MerhamliBattle of BitlisCapture of ErzurumBattle of Holy Apostles MonasteryBattle of MerhamliBattle of BitlisCapture of ErzurumAnkaraAleppoİzmirBursaMosulAdanaKonyaSamsunSochi500 km39.675N, 34.189E
4 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1901: 1 engagements1 in 19011912: 1 engagements1 in 19121915: 1 engagements1 in 19151918: 1 engagements1 in 191819011918
4 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Holy Apostles Monastery, 1901Battle of Merhamli, 1912Battle of Bitlis, 1915Capture of Erzurum, 191819011918
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
3 November 1901Battle of Holy Apostles MonasteryArakelots Monastery, TurkeyArmenian victory
27 November 1912Battle of MerhamliGreece1,324 km WBulgarian victory
July 1915Battle of BitlisBitlis, Turkey1,383 km ERussian victory
12 March 1918Capture of ErzurumErzurum, Turkey182 km NWOttoman victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.