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The Turkish–Armenian War (Armenian: Հայ-թուրքական պատերազմ), known in Turkey as the Eastern Front (Turkish: Doğu Cephesi) of the Turkish War of Independence, was a conflict between the First Republic of Armenia and the Turkish National Movement following the collapse of the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920.
The Armenian Genocide laid the groundwork for the Turkish nation-state to become more homogeneous. By the end of World War I, over 90 percent of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were gone with most traces of their existence erased. The women and children who survived were frequently forced to convert to Islam and give up their Armenian ...
The Armenian genocide [a] 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 Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of others, primarily women and children.
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).
The defense of Van (Armenian: Վանի հերոսամարտ, romanized: Vani herosamart) and in Russian Van operation (Russian: Ванская операция, romanized: Vanskaya operatsia) was the armed resistance of the Armenian population of Van and Russian army against the Ottoman Empire's attempts to massacre the Ottoman Armenian population of the Van Vilayet in the 1915 Armenian genocide.
Armenian people of World War I (3 C, 31 P) Pages in category "Armenians from the Ottoman Empire" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 384 total.
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire include: Abraham Pasha, civil servant and diplomat; Güllü Agop, actor, founder of modern Turkish theatre; Aram Andonian, journalist;
Georgian–Armenian War (1918) First Republic of Armenia Georgia: Inconclusive. Armenia gains the province of Lori. With the intervention of Great Britain, a truce was concluded between Armenia and Georgia. Turkish–Armenian War/Soviet invasion of Armenia (1920) First Republic of Armenia: Turkey Russian SFSR: Defeat. All of Western Armenia is ...