German Caucasus expedition
| German Caucasus Expeditions | ||||||||||
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| Part of the Caucasus Campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I | ||||||||||
Turkish Georgian Wars | ||||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||||
| Ottoman Empire |
Germany Georgia | Russian SFSR | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||||
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Enver Pasha Wehib Pasha |
F. K. von Kressenstein Giorgi Kvinitadze Ilia Odishelidze | Unknown | ||||||||
| Strength | ||||||||||
| Third Army | 3,000 | 22,000 | ||||||||
The German Caucasus expedition was a military expedition sent in late May 1918, by the German Empire to the formerly Russian Transcaucasia during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I. Its prime aim was to stabilize the pro-German Democratic Republic of Georgia and to secure oil supplies for Germany by preventing the Ottoman Empire from gaining access to the oil reserves near Baku on the Absheron Peninsula.