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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.
Second ottoman occupation of Tabriz (1918) Battle of Dilman (1915) (Allied victory) British occupations of Bushehr (1838, 1856, 1915) (Allied victory) Third british occupation of Bushehr (1915) (Allied victory) Jungle Movement of Gilan (1915-1920) Battle of Robat Karim (1915) (Allied tactical victory, Persian strategic victory) Battle of Musalla
This occupation ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1857. Iran pledged to withdraw from Herat and recognize Afghanistan , so British troops left Bushehr. On June 12, 1857, while staying in London, Karl Marx wrote an article entitled "The Persian Treaty" [ 11 ] and criticized both the clauses of the 1857 Treaty of Paris and Britain for occupying ...
The opinions of the Swedes reflected those popular back home, namely that they were pro-German. The Swedish officers decided to help the Persians and engaged in numerous battles with the Allies, including the Kermanshah operation, Battle of Qom, British occupation of Bushehr and Battle of Robat Karim. In 1915 the Russians and British therefore ...
The city of Tabriz in the Persian region of Azerbaijan changed hands several times during World War I (1914–1918) between forces of the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire. At the start of the war Tabriz was already held by Russian forces and had been since the Russian occupation of 1911. On 31 June 1914, three days after the war began, the ...
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 ...
The South Persia Rifles (Persian: تپانچهداران جنوب پارس), also known as SPR, was a Persian military force recruited by the British in 1916 and under British command. [1] They participated in the Persian Campaign of World War I.
The Achaemenid Empire (559–330 BCE) was the first of the Persian Empires to rule over significant portions of Greater Iran. The empire possessed a "national army" of roughly 120.000–150.000 troops, plus several tens of thousands of troops from their allies. The Persian army was divided into regiments of a thousand each, called hazarabam.