MUSA DAGH

Allied forces evacuate Armenian survivors from the Syrian coast and transfer them to a French naval cruiser, 1915.

'Musa Dagh' (, Arabic: ''Jebel Musa'', Armenian: ''Musa Ler'', Õ„Õ¸Ö‚Õ½Õ¡ Ô¼Õ¥Õ¼, meaning "Moses Mountain") was the site of resistance by the Armenians during the Armenian Genocide. The denizens of that region were violently expelled from their six villages (Kaboussieh, Yogohonoluk, Bitias, Wakef, Khodr Bey, Hedj Habibli) by the Ottomans in 1915. As Ottoman Turkish forces converged upon the town, the populace aware of the impending danger fell back upon Musa mountain and repeatedly thwarted assaults for fifty-three days. Allied warships, most notably French, in the Mediterranean responded to distress signals and rescued the remaining survivors just as ammunition and food provisions were being exhausted. The warships then transported them to Port Said, Egypt.

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Genocide survivors
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
References
See also
External links

Genocide survivors


The French warship Guichen, pictured above, participated along with several cruisers in the rescue of some 4,000 Armenians who had taken shelter on Musa Dagh.

Starting in 1918, when Hatay province became under French control, seven Armenian villages returned to their homes. On June 29, 1939, following an agreement between France and Turkey the province was given to Turkey. Afterwards Armenians in those six villages immigrated out of Hatay, while the residents of Vakıflı village chose to stay.[1] Vakıflı is the only remaining ethnic Armenian village in Turkey,[2][3] with a population only 130 Turkish-Armenians. Those who left the Hatay in 1939 immigrated to Lebanon where they founded the town of Anjar. Today, the town of Anjar is divided into six districts, each commemorating one of the villages of Musa Dagh.

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh


These historical events later inspired Franz Werfel to write his novel ''The Forty Days of Musa Dagh'' (1933), a fictionalized account based on Werfel's detailed research of historical sources. There is now a movie based on the novel.

References


1. Musa'dan notlar Celal Başlangıç
2. Türkiye'nin tek Ermeni köyü Vakıflı Ersin Kalkan
3. Turkey, , Verity, Campbell, Lonely Planet, 2007,


★ Armenia: The Survival of a Nation By Christopher J. Walker ISBN 0-312-04230-2

See also



★ Franco-Armenian relations

★ The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

★ Vakıflı

External links



★ Home of All Musa Daghians & Anjarians

★ Armenian National Institute entry on Musa Dagh

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