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The term fedayee was originally used during the Armenian national movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Still, it was also used to refer to the Armenian irregular forces in the early 1990s when the dispute with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh was turning into the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
During the siege of Van there were 20,000 Armenian volunteer units serving in the Russian army. [7] The Russian army entered Van on 16 May 1915. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Later on 15 October, under heavy fight around the region Lake Van , these battalions had lost five hundred Armenian soldiers and there were more than twelve hundred wounded or missing.
Yerkrapah Volunteer Union (Armenian: «Երկրապահ» կամավորական միություն, ԵԿՄ «Yerkrapah» kamavorakan miut'yun, YeKM) or Yerkrapah Union of Veterans, meaning Defenders of the Land, is an Armenian non-governmental group that consisted of 6,000 veterans of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, formed by Vazgen Sargsyan. [5]
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.
The area of Russian occupation as of September 1917 and administrative-territorial division of the regions of Turkey occupied by Russian troops during the First World War in 1916-1917. Some Western-Armenian regions (Berdaghrak\Yusufeli, Sper\Ispir, Tortum, Gaylget\Kelkit, Baberd\Bayburt and other) were included by Russians into Trebizon (Pontic ...
It was led by Andranik Ozanian, who was the commander of Armenian auxiliary troops in the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps within the Bulgarian army. [1] (Andranik Ozanian#Balkan Wars) 1914-17, World War I, Armenian volunteer units were employed in the Russian Imperial Army. Antranik also in fought in the First World War fought as ...
Commentary: For centuries, Armenians have been fighting Turkey and Azerbaijan for the right to live peacefully in their ancestral land. When Armenians became refugees, this Fresno woman was there ...
The Armenian Legion (French: Légion Arménienne) was a volunteer unit that was raised by the Allied Powers to serve in the Middle East Theatre during World War I.Trained and led by French army commanders, the Légion d'Orient (Eastern Legion), as the unit was originally known, was created in 1916, its ranks chiefly drawn from Levantine and Armenian exiles and refugees from the Ottoman Empire.