Atlas of Battles

commander, 12 engagements

Battles of Enver Pasha

Battles of Enver Pasha

Ottoman politician and general (1881–1922)

Enver Pasha is recorded as a commander at 12 placed engagements in the atlas between 1911 and 1922: 11 battles and 1 siege across 5 present-day countries, most in Libya (3), Turkey (3), Tajikistan (3). Taken in date order, the sites lie 9,001 km apart end to end, 818 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Italo-Turkish War (3), First Balkan War (2), Middle Eastern theater of World War I (2).

Battle of GargarescBattle of DernaFirst Battle of AmmanFirst Transjordan attack on AmmanBattles for DushanbeSiege of DushanbeBattle of Cegan HillBattle of TobrukBattle of BulairBattle of ŞarköySecond Battle of AdrianopleBergmann OffensiveBattle of TobrukBattle of BulairBattle of ŞarköySecond Battle of AdrianopleBergmann OffensiveTehranBaghdadKabulAthensKyivViennaTashkentDubai2000 km36.825N, 41.396E
12 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1911: 1 engagements1912: 2 engagements1913: 3 engagements3 in 19131914: 1 engagements1918: 2 engagements1921: 1 engagements1922: 2 engagements19111922
12 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Tobruk, 1911Battle of Gargaresc, 1912Battle of Derna, 1912Battle of Bulair, 1913Battle of Şarköy, 1913Second Battle of Adrianople, 1913Bergmann Offensive, 1914First Battle of Amman, 1918First Transjordan attack on Amman, 1918Battles for Dushanbe, 1921Siege of Dushanbe, 1922Battle of Cegan Hill, 192219111922
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 5

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
22 December 1911Battle of TobrukTobruk, LibyaOttoman–Senussi victory
1912Battle of GargarescLibya1,022 km WItalian victory
3 March 1912Battle of DernaLibya890 km EOttoman victory
26 January 1913Battle of BulairBolayır, Turkey940 km NBulgarian victory
1913Battle of ŞarköyTurkey29 km EBulgarian victory
22 July 1913Second Battle of AdrianopleTurkey127 km NOttoman victory
2 November 1914Bergmann OffensiveErzurum vilayet, Georgia1,512 km EOttoman victory
27 March 1918First Battle of AmmanAmman, Jordan1,341 km SWOttoman-German victory
2 April 1918First Transjordan attack on AmmanJordan1 km SWOttoman-German victory
1921Battles for DushanbeDushanbe, Tajikistan3,056 km NEBolshevik victory
1922Siege of DushanbeDushanbe, Tajikistan0 km NDima\Batu/Haidi victory
1922Battle of Cegan HillTajikistan84 km EBolshevik 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, Unidentified photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.