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  2. Slavery in the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia

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    Morgenthau's writings also confirmed reports that Armenian girls were being sold as slaves during the Armenian genocide of 1915. [145] [146] During the Armenian genocide between 1915 and 1917, Armenian women and children were being displayed naked in Damascus in Ottoman Syria and sold at the slave market. [147]

  3. Vorpahavak - Wikipedia

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    Library of Congress caption: "Armenians rescued from Arabs" Following the Armenian genocide, vorpahavak (Armenian: որբահաւաք; lit. ' gathering of orphans ') was the organized effort to rescue "hidden" Armenian women and children who had survived the genocide by being abducted and adopted into Muslim families and forcibly converted to Islam.

  4. Great Surgun - Wikipedia

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    The Great Surgun (Armenian: Մեծ սուրգուն, the Great Exile) [1] was the forced deportation of the population (mainly Armenians) from Eastern Armenia to the territory of the central and northern parts of Safavid Iran, which was carried out in 1604-1605 by the order of Shah Abbas the Great during the Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–1618).

  5. History of Armenia - Wikipedia

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    The history of Armenia covers the topics related to the history of the Republic of Armenia, as well as the Armenian people, the Armenian language, and the regions of Eurasia historically and geographically considered Armenian. [1] Armenia is located between Eastern Anatolia and the Armenian highlands, [1] surrounding the Biblical mountains of ...

  6. Armenians in the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Armenian National Assembly also had the power to elect the Armenian Governor by a local Armenian legislative council. The councils later will be part of elections during Second Constitutional Era. Local Armenian legislative councils were composed of six Armenians elected by the Armenian National Assembly.

  7. Slavery in Syria - Wikipedia

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    Arab slavers An Armenian woman in slavery after the genocide bears thistles to fuel home. Armenian woman put up for auction, 1915 Islamized Armenians who were "rescued from Arabs" after the First World War and the Armenian genocide. Slavery existed in the territory of the modern state of Syria until the 1920s.

  8. Medieval Armenia - Wikipedia

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    In 642, the Muslims took Dvin, slaughtered 12,000 of its inhabitants and carried 35,000 into slavery. [3] Prince Theodoros Rshtuni organized resistance and liberated the enslaved Armenians. [4] However, Theodoros eventually accepted Arab rule of Armenia. Thus, in 645, the entirety of Armenia fell under Islamic rule.

  9. Armenians - Wikipedia

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    Armenians (Armenian: հայեր, romanized: hayer, ) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia. [44] [45] [46] Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and constituted the main population of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh until the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh and the subsequent flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians. [47]