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Fedayee (partisan) Harutiun Agha
Fedayee (partisan) Harutiun Agha. Armenian Diaspora Memory and Innovation collection. Fedayeen were Armenian civilians who formed self-defense groups in reaction to the mass murder of Armenians (1894-1896) during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
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Stepanos Mekhitarian
Stepanos Mekhitarian (1863 – 1893), nicknamed Arabo, was one of the first fedayeen. Armenian Diaspora Memory and Innovation collection.
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Ruben Hovannessian
Ruben Hovannessian was from Ghazakh (north of Sevan Lake). Armenian Diaspora Memory and Innovation collection.
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Kristapor Mikayelian
Kristapor Mikayelian (1859 – 1905), leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. Armenian Diaspora Memory and Innovation collection.
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Armenian wedding of Hrand Nazariantz – Constantinople
Marriage of the Armenian poet Hrand Nazariantz with Italian actress Maddalena De Cosmis (aka Lena Mayer). The wedding took place in Constantinople on February 13, 1910. Carlo Coppola Private Coll.
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Portrait of Hrand Nazariantz
Portrait of Hrand Nazariantz. This portrait was painted by Italian Domenico Cantatore (Ruvo di Puglia, 1906 – Paris, 1998) in charge of his close friend Hrand Nazariantz, poet and exiled Armenian. Carlo Coppola Private Coll.
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Hrand Nazariantz, Armenian poet from Uskudar
Hrand Nazariantz was born in Uskudar (Scutari) in 1880 or 1886. He studied at Berberian Varjaran and after in London and Paris Sorbonne. He came back in Bolis in 1907 and he wrote on many news paper like Mehian and Baguine. In 1913 he escaped and he arrived in Italy, in Bari, where he tried…
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Serope Aghpure Pasha’s Armenian Fedayee squad in Mush – 1899
Serope Aghpure Pasha’s Armenian Fedayee squad in Mush in 1899. Serophe Aghpure Pasha was one of the most valiant, self-sacrificing Armenian freedom fighters of all time and was fondly referred to as “The Guardian of the Armenians of Mush and Sassoun”; he was a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation of Sassoun. This photo has…
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Armenian family, Semal village – 1904
Armenian family, Semal village in 1904. Sassoun mountain plateau region. Vahé Achikian – Arménie de l’Ouest collection
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Yotnakhparian family tree – Ourfa
The Yotnakhparians from Ourfa. Levon Parian Private Coll.