Armenian national liberation movement

Armenian national liberation movement

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clockwise: Battle of Holy Apostles Monastery, Armenian volunteers at the Caucasus Campaign, Van Resistance of 1915, Khanasor Expedition in 1897.

Date

circa 17th Century or 1862 – 1922 (~60 years)

Location

Ottoman Empire (Western Armenia, Cilicia)
Russian Empire (mostly the Caucasus)

Result

Partial and temporary Armenian success

Internalization of the Armenian Question by 1878
Armenian Genocide in 1915
Establishment of the Republic of Armenia in 1918
Turkish Armenia given to Armenia by the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920
Western Armenia given to Turkey in 1921
Sovietization of Armenia from 1920–22

Belligerents

Fedayi Volunteer units (1914–17)
under Russia

Republic of Van

Armenian Legion (1916–20)
under France

Armenia
(1918–1920)

Mountainous Armenia (1921)

Ottoman Empire (until 1918)

Hamidiye
Kurdish irregular cavalry

Ankara Government (from 1920)

Azerbaijan
(1918-20)

Georgia (1918)

Russian Empire (until 1914)

Cossacks

Soviet Russia (from 1917)

Soviet Azerbaijan

Armenian Bolsheviks

Commanders and leaders

Drastamat Kanayan

Tovmas Nazarbekian

Movses Silikyan

Kevork Chavush †

Aghbiur Serob †

Christophor Araratov (POW)

Daniel Bek-Pirumyan

Sultan Abdulhamid II

Enver Pasha †

Fatali Khan Khoyski

Mammad Amin Rasulzade

Khosrov Sultanov

Giorgi Kvinitadze

Giorgi Mazniashvili

Alexander II
Alexander III
Nicholas II
Grigory Golitsin (WIA)
†

Grigory Ordzhonikidze

Aleksandr Myasnikyan

Partial and temporary Armenian success

Fedayi Volunteer units (1914–17)
under Russia

Armenian Legion (1916–20)
under France

Ottoman Empire (until 1918)

Russian Empire (until 1914)

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