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French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
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Armenian genocide
1915–1917 genocide campaign in the Ottoman Empire
The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Musa Dagh
Battles involving Armenian National movement
Musa Dagh is a mountain in the Hatay Province of Turkey. In 1915, it was the location of a successful Armenian resistance to the Armenian genocide, an event that inspired Franz Werfel to write the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)