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  • Vahe Achikian

    The correct name of this town is Mezre, not Mezire. It was one of the main deportation route concentration stations in Ottoman Turkey 1915-1916 during the Armenian Genocide.

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  • Hagop Mouradian

    CSW, could you please contact me. I am under the impression that my family, the Mouradians, were from Chunkush and Pazmashen. Bekkah Morris Long shot, but Hagop & Mary – I’m looking for more information on my Mooradian & Attarian family from Chunkush then later Harput & Malatya. If you have any info & are…

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  • Jane

    Thank you for posting this precious photo. My family was from Shabin Kaharisar

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  • Margo W. Arroyo (Karabilikian-Encababian)

    My father, Hagop Karabilikian/Karabelikian, and his 3 older sisters were from Amasya. Their father Avedis Karabilikian and mother Karabilikian/Karabelikian (née Bakdamurian) perished in the genocide. My grandfather Avedis was a textile merchant on the Silk Road. My father arrived in the USA in 1920, under his sister’s (Varteni) married name Yazmajian/ Yazmadjian and later changed…

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  • Vazgen

    My great great grandfather.

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  • Vahe Achikian

    The correct name is Hunchak Abardyan of Zeytun. The Abardyan clan used to be one of the ruling feudal “Ishkhans” of Zeytun, but in the early 1800’s they ran afoul of the Yenidunyayan clan and were defeated and decimated. The survivors ran away to Marash and became foot soldiers and trustees for the Dulkadir Turkish…

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  • Diana Takooshian

    My Grandfather is one of the boys in this picture.

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  • Ana Abramian

    Es mi abuelo que fallecio en 1965

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  • Dalibor Ballian

    Poslao bih vam dvije slike moje obitelji.Dalibor Ballian

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  • Shirley Kalashian-Collins

    Interesting – they are in the same sort of outfits of an unknown man a cousin found in her closet. We have been trying to figure out who he was. This says Pazmashen, so I’m wondering if that was how they dressed in that area.

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