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The Persian campaign or invasion of Iran (Persian: اشغال ایران در جنگ جهانی اول) was a series of military conflicts between the Ottoman Empire, British Empire and Russian Empire in various areas of what was then neutral Qajar Iran, beginning in December 1914 and ending with the Armistice of Mudros on 30 October 1918, as part of the Middle Eastern Theatre of World War I.
The Persian campaign or invasion of Iran was a series of military conflicts between the Ottoman Empire, British Empire and Russian Empire in various areas of what was then neutral Qajar Iran, beginning in December 1914 as part of the Middle Eastern Theatre of World War I. Persia declared its neutrality during the outbreak of the First World War ...
An Ottoman invasion of Persia took place in 1906 on the orders of the vali of Baghdad. [1] Persia was then under the rule of the Qajar dynasty. [2] The invasion of Persia by the Ottoman Empire occurred during the Persian Constitutional Revolution, and the Ottoman troops were driven out by Russian troops prior to the First World War.
Greco-Persian War (First) (492–490 BC) Persian Empire: Greeks: Undecided: Persia conquers Macedonia and the Cycladic Islands, re-subjugates Thrace,but fails in an attempt to subjugate Athens and Sparta Greco-Persian War (Second) (480–479 BC) Persian Empire: Greeks: Defeat: Macedonia, Thrace and Ionia regain independence from Persia ...
Middle Eastern, Persian: Persian campaign (World War I). Ottomans occupy the Persian border town of Qatur as a bridgehead to the Caucasus, but withdraw after their defeat at Sarıkamış. December 16 Naval, Atlantic: Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby. The German fleet shells Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Hartlepool, and Whitby England ...
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
Middle Eastern theatre of World War I; Part of World War I: From left to right: The Ottoman Shaykh al-Islām who declared Jihad against the Entente Powers; Burning oil tanks in the port of Novorossiysk after the Ottoman Empire's strike on Russian ports; Fifth Army during the Gallipoli Campaign; Third Army on the Caucasus campaign; The heliograph team of the Ottoman army in the Sinai and ...
BBC Persian's documentary Iran 1918: A Forgotten War for Oil. In recent years, the famine has been subject to conspiracy theories, polarization and historical revisionism in Iran. [41] Much of the controversy is about the death toll and root causes, and lack of sufficient data on this period has been described as the "principal driver" for it. [41]