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Cossack patrol near Baku oil fields. 1905.

House of a Rich Armenian Burnt by Tartars.^{[citation needed]}

Armenian Church Plundered and Desecrated by Tartars. ^[1]

The Armenian-Azeri massacres refers to the bloody inter-ethnic confrontation between the Armenians and the Azeris throughout the Caucasus in 1905—1907.

The events were caused by hostility between Muslim Azeris (that time referred to as Caucasian Tatars) 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]}

References

^ Fire and Sword in the Caucasus London, T. F. Unwin, 1906.

Bibliography

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

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[1] Fire and Sword in the Caucasus London, T. F. Unwin, 1906.

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