Musa Dagh
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| Hamidian Massacres · 1896 Ottoman Bank Takeover · Adana Massacre · Young Turk Revolution |
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| April 24, 1915 · Tehcir Law · Armenian casualties of deportations · Ottoman Armenian casualties |
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Musa Dagh (Turkish: Musa Dağı, Jebel Musa (Arabic), or Musa Ler (Armenian) meaning "Moses Mountain") was the site of resistance by the Armenians during the Armenian Genocide. The denizens of that region were violently expelled from their seven villages (Kaboussieh, Yogohonoluk, Bitias, Wakef, Khodr Bey, Hedj Habibli) by the Ottomans in 1915. As Ottoman Turkish forces converged upon the town, the populace –aware of the impending danger– fell back upon Musa mountain and repeatedly thwarted assaults for fifty-three days. Allied warships, most notably French, in the Mediterranean responded to distress signals and rescued the remaining survivors just as ammunition and food provisions were being exhausted. The warships then transported them to Port Said, Egypt. This historical account later inspired Franz Werfel to write the 1933 non fiction account The Forty Days of Musa Dagh.
Other survivors fled elsewhere, seeking refuge in Lebanon. Today, the town of Anjar is divided into seven districts, each commemorating one of the villages of Musa Dagh.
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- Armenia: The Survival of a Nation By Christopher J. Walker ISBN 0-312-04230-2
