Armenian-Tatar massacres 1905-1907

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Armeno-Tartar War
A Cossack military patrol near the Baku oilfields, ca. 1905.
Date February 1905 - 1907 Location Baku; Nakhichevan; Shusha; Tiflis; Russian Empire Result Violence quelled by intervention of Cossack regiments

The Armenian-Tatar massacres (also known as the Armenian-Tartar War and the Armeno-Tartar War) refers to the bloody inter-ethnic confrontation between the Armenians and the Caucasian Tartars (modern Azerbaijanis) throughout the Caucasus in 1905—1907.

The events were caused by hostility between Muslim population of the region on one side and Christian Armenians on the other.^{[citation needed]}

The massacres started during the Russian Revolution of 1905, and claimed hundreds of lives. The most violent clashes occurred in 1905 in February in Baku, in May in Nakhchivan, in August in Shusha and in November in Ganja, heavily damaging the cities and the Baku oilfields. Some violence, although of lesser scale, broke out also in Tbilisi.^{[citation needed]}

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• Thomas De Waal (2004), Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War, NYU Press, ISBN 978-0-8147-1945-9