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Vahé Achikian

This Protestant Armenian seminary (not seminar) of Marash was erected on “It Tepe” heights over Marash in 1879 by American missionaries. It was still standing up until the Kemalist war against the French legionnaires in 1920-1921, but is converted to a state hospital in modern Marash.
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Vahé Achikian

Sarkis Gougounian was one of the heroes of the “Khanasor Arshavank” or The Khanasor invasion that took place in the 1890’s against the Mazrik tribe of Kurds who had massacred scores of local Armenians in the Tarone-Tourouperan province.
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Vahé Achikian

The Armenian church is Sourp Gevork in Sheker-Dere hillside district of Marash. Sheker-Dere neighbourhood of Marash was 85% Armenian populated during the period 1899-1914
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Vahé Achikian

The carpenters are members of the Tcholaqian family of Yuqari Mahalle ( Verin Tagh) of Zeytoun. The one in the middle is the elder brother of Aram Bey Tcholaqian, the hero Mesrop Agha Tcholaqian of the 1895 Grand Uprising of Zeytun who also participated in the March-April 1915 resistance battle ...
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Haroot Matosian

Parev tsez: Do you have any main door pics of Soorb Garabed of Moosh Hourig Tcheurekdjian Lately I read in a paper or on the internet about the door of Sourp Garabed monastery but i don’t remember where. Does anybody know about this article which explained how it was found and relocated?
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Vahé Achikian

The Zeytountsi woman above has been identified ( based on information from G. Doevlet’s book Sandokh published in 1946, Paris ) as the resistance fighter Tervanda Arapkhanian. She had been one of the brave Armenian women of Zeytoun who was in charge of keeping the captured Turkish soldiers and ...
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