Caucasus Islamic Army Digital Collection

Purpose

The Caucasus Islamic Army Digital Collection gathers published sources on the 1918 campaign from Ganja to Baku, the first year of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the ways this period has been remembered into a single catalogue. Its aim is to make a scattered, multilingual literature accessible to researchers, students and interested readers. The collection opened under the auspices of TADİV on 15 September 2026, the 108th anniversary of the liberation of Baku.

How the sources were gathered

Records were harvested with multilingual query lists from DergiPark's open archive protocol (OAI-PMH), TR Dizin, OpenAlex, Crossref, the Turkish Council of Higher Education thesis centre, CyberLeninka, the Internet Archive, the ADR portal of the Presidential Library of Azerbaijan, Wikimedia Commons and YouTube; key books and memoirs were added by the editors. Descriptions were mapped to a common schema, deduplicated by DOI and title and scored for relevance.

Collection summaries

For records with a high relevance score, the source's description, abstract and where possible full text were read to prepare a collection summary in Turkish, Azerbaijani and English, a one-sentence description and an index of people, places, units and events. These texts are drafts produced with the support of a large language model and are reviewed by editors before publication; they do not replace the source's own abstract but introduce it in the context of the collection. If you find an error, please send a correction request.

Copyright and access

Full text is provided only for public-domain, openly licensed or permitted material. Every other record carries its description, summary and a direct link to the publisher's or archive's page. The access level is stated on each record. Rights holders may request the removal or correction of a record; requests are answered within five working days.

Impartiality

On topics where historiography offers differing accounts, such as the events of March 1918 and September 1918, the collection takes no side. Sources representing different perspectives from the Turkish, Azerbaijani, Russian and English literature are catalogued together, and contested events are flagged in the timeline.

Contact

For removal and correction requests, contributions and collaboration, contact TADİV via tadiv.org.