Khrimian was a strong and industrious man, and his inauguration meant the raising of Etchmiadzin to a powerful religious institution (1896)

A vast multitude of Armenians surged around the walls of the sacred edifice, and all awaited in great anxiety to hear of the result of the balloting. It was a touching spectacle. Men and women, the young and the old, wept like children as their voices grew hoarse by shouting ” Papa ! Papa ...

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The Porte’s preliminary steps for the suppression of the Armenian Question, and England’s shameful part (1896)

Shortly after the Treaty of Berlin the British Government despatched a number of consular officers with certain instructions to go and inquire into the general condition of Armenia, for the alleged purpose of ascertaining the necessary measures of reform. These officers were secretly ...

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British selfishness and greed has been maintaining this curse of Turkish domination, which was doomed to perish forty-three years ago (1896)

While Europe has been progressing in civilization the Ottoman Empire has remained in its slumber of medieval times. The world has undergone a revolution, yet the Turk is in his primitive barbarity, with all his Tartar instincts. The Ottoman Empire has been an anachronism in the nineteenth ...

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Garabed Toursarkissian

Garabed Toursarkissian (1871, Hajen – 1941, ...

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Vahé Achikian

Identification of the above Social Democrate Hunchakian comrades in Zeytoun 1895-1896:L to R: Garabed Aghassi, Garabed Hrachia, Abah, Meléh. This photo is from winter of 1896, when these four Huntchakyan freedom fighters organised the heroic 1895-1896 defence of Zeytoun against the 20,000 ...

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Vahe Achikian

Der Barthoghimeos ( Piskopos Partogimyos in Turkish ) was the Armenian “Aratchnort Hayr” of Firnus 1880’s through 1899. He valiantly participated in the 2nd Zeytun Uprising of 1895-1896 and fought side-by-side with Social Democrat Hunchakyan militant Armenian, Abah. Der Barthoghimeos had about ...

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Vahe Achikian

This warrior’s name is Djellat or Cellad in Turkish. He was one of the fiercest freedom fighters amongst Zeytun’s insurgents during the 1895-1896 Rebellion. This was mentioned in Hunchakyan Party operative Garapet Aghassi’s ( Garapet Tour-Sarkissian) book “Zeïtoun: Depuis les origines jusqu’à ...

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Levon Pashalian – Bolis 1896

Levon Pashalian in Bolis (Constantinople) in 1896. ...

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Armenian leaders of the Second Zeytun Resistance

Armenian leaders of the Second Zeytun Resistance in ...

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