Significant1880 – 1881 · 1 year
Battle of Geok Tepe
Geok Tepe (Gokdepe) · Akhal-Teke oasis · Turkmenistan
Estimated casualties
6.5K – 15Kestimated dead
~6,500 Teke buried inside the fortress plus up to ~8,000 killed fleeing; Russian losses ~290 killed, 883 wounded.
SOURCESkobelev report / Wikipedia
The main event of Russia's 1880-81 campaign to conquer the Teke Turkmen, the Battle of Geok Tepe (January 1881) ended with General Skobelev storming the fortress and a massacre of fleeing Turkmen. It gave Russia control over most of present-day Turkmenistan, nearly completing the conquest of Central Asia.
Belligerents2
- Russian Empire
- Teke Turkmen
ON THE MAPRussia (Tsardom, later Empire)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Geok Tepe
- Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Battle of Geok Tepe (1880 – 1881). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-geok-tepe · Sources & methodology