“You are proposing that I save my own life in Byurakan or on the top of some impregnable mountain? No, thousand times no! I will not leave Mayr Ator [Holy See] bequeathed to us by the holy ancestors! If the Armenian military cannot stop the advance of the enemy, if they are not able to …
The heroic battle of Sardarapat was celebrated for the first time in 1919. In 1919, on May 24, representatives of Armenia and America celebrated the first anniversary of the Sardarapat battle in Yerevan with great fanfare. In the photo below are two outstanding figures of the American YMCA John Elder and James Erol, participants of …
The Yezidi formations of Jangir Agha and Usub Bek actively participated in the heroic battles of May 1918. Thousands of Yezidis filled the ranks of the Armenian cavalry. Before Dro assumed the post of commander of the Bash Aparan Front (May 23, 1918), the Ottoman regular forces would often oppose the Yezidi Horse Regiment and …
The military commandant of Yerevan Arshavir Shahatuni recalled: “It was the middle of May 1918. We heard that the Turks broke the peace treaty and moved towards Sardarapat. From a telephone conversation with commander Silikyan, I found out that he had sent an encrypted telegram to Aram in order to convince Catholicos Gevorg V Surenyants …
Prince Hakob Bagratuni was born in Akhaltsikhe in 1879 into an Armenian noble family from the Bagratuni dynasty. Bagratunis from Gyumri-Alexandropol who had migrated from Karin (Erzrum) at the beginning of the 19th century were representatives of the old Bagratuni princely family. After graduating from the male Tiflis gymnasium with honors, Akop Bagratuni continued his …
The head of the German commission in the Caucasus Von Kressenstein has spoken about the Karabakh problem well before it became a major issue and political direction. “At present, Turkey wants to launch an offensive from Azerbaijan on Karabakh inhabited by Armenians to devastate the local population under the pretext that the local Armenians are …
Drastamat Kanayan (Dro) writes in his memoirs: “We had a dispute with the commander of the Yerevan corps General Movses Silikyan. He told me: ‘I appoint you the commander of Bash Aparan.’ I said that I would go where he wanted but that he should not divide the army right then. Instead, I proposed to …
In the early 1990s, the Artsakh Liberation War began. Svo Raf – at that time one of the main criminal authorities of the post-Soviet space – could not ignore what was happening with his country and would repeatedly assist Armenia with food, clothing, and weapons. Levon Soghomonyan in an interview with Sergey Galoyan, the author …
The Sevres peace treaty was presented to the Turkish delegation at 16:00 on May 11, 1920, in Paris, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Armenian delegation was present at the ceremony as well since the new Armenian state was one of the parties in the treaty and wasrecognized as a sovereign and independent state. …
On May 15, 1919, the first government of Historical (Western) Armenia was formed from members of the National Delegation who were elected by the Armenian National Conference in Paris. The government consisted of His Excellency Poghos Nubar Pasha, Professor A. Ter-Hakobyan, doctors G. Nevruz & G. Pastrmajyan, M. A. Chobanyan, and V. Tekeyan. This group …
Afghan mujahideen have participated in the Armenian-Azerbaijani war in 1991-94. They did so most actively in 1993 after Rovshan Javadov, the commander of the Special Forces Detachment, met Prime Minister of Afghanistan Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of the Hezb-e Islami party. They negotiated military assistance to Azerbaijan in the form of mujahideen. A few months …
In Cilicia, the Armenian feudal lords would receive the right to land ownership by inheritance and become landowners according to the traditions of Armenian princely law. In Cilicia, there were 70 large and small principalities that were inherited by family elders. Each of these principalities had their own fortresses, army, and banner. In the 13th …
The former residence of the President of Turkey, the Çankaya Mansion where many anti-Armenian decisions have been made, is the property of Armenians. This fact became known in 2007 when an article was published in Hurriyet, the main state newspaper of Turkey. The author of the article claimed that a wealthy Armenian jeweler has sold …
World War II began in 1939. In the same year began the joint German-Soviet operation to attack and partition Poland. In commemoration of this joint act, a parade of the Wehrmacht and the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army took place in Brest-Litovsk. The act of a joint attack on Poland speaks of a deep conspiracy …
“Let His Majesty the Sultan and the Mohammedans scattered across the land who consider him their caliph know that the German Kaiser will be their friend at all times,” the German emperor and King of Prussia Wilhelm II gave such a toast during his visit to Damascus in 1898. Relations between the two countries would …
The time is approaching for the anniversary of the heroic battle of Van (1915). The Armenian history has memorized the unprecedented and savage killings of Armenians in Historical Armenia carried out by the Turkish government. At that time, 23,000 Armenians lived in Van province, and the Turkish plan to destroy them faced serious problems and …
“I can’t tell what I was experiencing at that moment. I thought I was going to die as grenades were flying in my direction. I was probably lucky – the last grenade only wounded my hand. Then, I thought that I needed to fight and that everything would be fine…” says Kamo Hovsepyan who in …
In January-February 1916, the Russian army entered Khnus, Mush, Karin, and Baghesh. Among the ranks of the army were numerous volunteer Armenians. On the night of February 7 (19), Andranik and his volunteer detachment liberated Baghesh. General Abatsiev’s troops then entered the city. Thanks to Andranik’s actions, 300 Armenian women and children survived. Andranik would …