Nikol Duman
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| Birth name | Nikoghayos Ter-Hovhannisyan |
| Born |
12 January 1867 Ghshlagh village, Nagorno-Karabakh, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 23 September 1914 (aged 47) Kislovodsk, Stavropol Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Buried at | Khojivank, Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Allegiance |
 Dashnaktsutyun
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| Years of service | ?—1914 |
| Battles/wars |
Armenian National Liberation Movement Khanasor Expedition Sasun Uprising Persian Constitutional Revolution |
Nikol Duman (Armenian: Նիկոլ Դուման; Nikoghayos Ter-Hovhannisyan (Armenian: Նիկողայոս Տեր-Հովհաննիսյան) (12 January 1867 – 23 September 1914) was an Armenian fedayee from Karabakh.
Nikoghayos Ter-Hovhannisyan was born to an Armenian family in the Ghshlagh village of Nagorno-Karabakh. His father was a priest. In 1887, he graduated from the Shusha diocesan school. He then taught in Armenian schools in the North Caucasus until 1891, when he moved to Tabriz, where he was a teacher and also the treasurer of the circle of local Armenian national figures.
Beginning in 1893, he taught at the school in the village of Galasar, Salmas (modern Iran, near the border with Turkey), where he took an active part in the Armenian national and political life as a member of the Union of Armenian revolutionaries (later the Armenian Revolutionary Federation). Nikol was one of the three members of the committee ARF in Tabriz, along with Ovnanom Davtyan and Hovsep Arghutian.
After the Hamidian massacres of Armenians from 1894 to 1896, Nikol entirely devoted himself to the Armenian national liberation movement and organization of self-defense.
In 1895, he moved to Van with a group of 10 people. His house was besieged by the Kurdish Hamidiye cavalry. Although the Kurds had set fire to his house, Nikol managed to escape under the cover of smoke and went to the nearby mountains, where he and his men firing back and killed two Hamidiye. Admiring his courage, the Kurds nicknamed him "Duman" ("Smoke").
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