Category: War, from Wikidata’s classes “military occupation”, “armed conflict”
Russian occupation of Tabriz
Part of: Russian involvement in the Persian Constitutional Revolution Wikidata
Wikidata classes on our event-class list: military occupation, armed conflict (all its classes: Wikidata item)
The Russian occupation of Tabriz was a military occupation by the Russian Empire that lasted from 30 April 1909 to 28 February 1918, with a brief interruption from 6 to 31 January 1915. The occupation occurred during the Persian Constitutional Revolution and the subsequent years of World War I. At the time, Tabriz was the second-largest city of Qajar Iran, serving as the capital of the Azerbaijan region and the traditional seat of the Qajar Crown Prince.
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