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  • JMArmstrong

    Today I saw a memorial to the Armenian men who had died in London. The memorial is in the Old Camberwell cemetery in South East London. Can you tell me anything about this, how were they killed and why?

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  • Mnatsagan Semerdjian

    Mnatsagan Semerdjian (1840-1914), Zeytun intellectual writer, historian and elder notable who witnessed the 1862 and 1895 Zeytun uprisings. Photo taken in 1903. Vahé Achikian – Zeytoun Private Coll.

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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 officers from the Zeytoun Qishla under…

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  • Mush, Tseronque village Armenian church c. 1903

    Mush, Tseronque village Armenian church c. 1903. The Tseronque (Tsronk) Armenian village church North East of Moush was the scene of fierce battles of resistance against Ottoman Turks and Kurdish Qizilbache tchété bands by Armenian fedayeen like Gévork Tchavoush, General Antranig and Sérope Aghpüre in 1904-1905. Vahé Achikian – Arménie de L’Ouest photo collection.

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  • Tervanda Arapkhanian – Zeytun 1903

    Zeytun village photo of Tervanda Arapkhanian in 1903. Photo taken by British General Mark Sykes in his expeditionary book on the 12 Ottoman provinces of Asia Minor, Dar-ul-Islam. Vahé Achikian – Zeytoun Collection  

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