These events served as the basis of the novel “Forty days of Musa Dagh” by Franz Werfel.
After the end of World War I, the Hatay Province where the six villages were located became a part of French Syria. The absence of the Turks allowed the Armenians who used to live on the slopes of Musa Dagh to return to their villages.
However, a 1939 referendum resulted in the passage of Hatay to Turkey. The majority of the 5000 Armenians living in the province left their villages and moved to Lebanon. Currently, there are only about 130 Armenians living in the province.
VAKIFLI’DA KIRK GÜN
How a humble noise-making instrument may connect Hattian metalworkers, Hurrian myth-singers, Egyptian priestesses of Isis,…
Image Source: 301.am For years, Ankara and Baku publicly denied that Syrian fighters had any…
Long before Armenia's kings raised churches over pagan sanctuaries, before Hellenism folded Vahagn into Herakles…
Introduction Long before Urartian kings inscribed their names in cuneiform on the cliffs of Van,…
A Coalition Beneath the Mountain Among the oracles of judgment collected in the Book of…
If you have ever climbed the Cascade in Yerevan and looked up at the tall,…