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The Sasun rebellion of 1894, also known as the First Sasun resistance (Armenian: Սասնո առաջին ապստամբութիւն), was the conflict between Ottoman Empire's Hamidiye forces and the Armenian fedayi belonging to the Armenian national movement's Hunchakian party in the Sasun region.
[24] [30] [34] In 1891–92, the hamidiye irregular cavalry units were sent by the Ottoman authorities to attack Sasun, but were fought off by Armenian forces. [33] The famous Armenian fedayi Arabo came to prominence in these battles. [33] Several Armenian revolutionaries traveled to Sasun to join in the armed resistance.
The Sasun uprising or Sasun rebellion of 1904 (Armenian: Սասունի երկրորդ ապստամբութիւնը, Sasuni yerkrord apstambut'yunĕ, literally Second Sassoun resistance) was an uprising by Armenian militia against the Ottoman Empire in Turkey's Sason region in 1904.
The Sasun resistance in 1894 (Armenian: Սասնոյ առաջին ապստամբութիւն). The Zeitun Rebellion from 1895-to 1896, was the Armenian military response to prevent massacres from taking place during the Hamidian massacres. The Defense of Van in 1896 was the response by the Armenian population in Van to the Hamidian massacres.
In Sasun, Armenian activists were working to arm the folk and to recruit young men by motivating them to the Armenian cause. 50,000 Turkish and Kurdish troops started the offensive in Sasun, where 500 fedayees had to defend 20,000 unarmed people.
He graduated from the local Armenian school. Gavafian had soon taken part in Armenian resistance activity. In 1895, during the Hamidian massacres in Erzurum, Gavafian led an armed group to protect Armenian people in the region and soon became their spiritual leader. [2] Gavafian moved to Sasun in 1903 and took part in the 1904 Sasun uprising.
Armenak was graduated from the school of Surb Karapet Monastery in Mush during the late 1880s. [1] Later, he studied at the United Armenian College of Mush. He was deeply influenced by the revolutionary ideas of his teacher Mkrtich Saryan. After his graduation, Armenak has worked as a teacher in the Armenian schools of Sasun and Taron. He ...
Daredevils of Sassoun [1] (Armenian: Սասնա ծռեր Sasna cṙer, also spelled Daredevils of Sasun) is an Armenian heroic epic poem in four cycles (parts), with its main hero and story better known as David of Sassoun, which is the story of one of the four parts.