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    Armenian millet until the Tanzimat reforms in the nineteenth century equalized all Ottoman citizens before the law. Armenians were a minority in the Empire...
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    War I, Armenians occupied a somewhat protected, but subordinate, place in Ottoman society. Large-scale massacres of Armenians had occurred in the 1890s...
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  • The Ottoman Armenian population varied throughout history. The number of Armenians within the empire between 1914 and 1915 is a controversial topic. Most...
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    The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm that spanned much of Southeast Europe, West Asia...
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    the Christian Armenians were dhimmi subjects (forming a millet) under Muslim rulers, whether Ottomans or Persians. In 1678, the Armenian leadership secretly...
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    Ottoman Armenian casualties refers to the number of deaths of Ottoman Armenians between 1914 and 1923, during which the Armenian genocide occurred. Most...
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    The Hamidian massacres also called the Armenian massacres, were massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the mid-1890s. Estimated casualties ranged...
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    (formerly the Ottoman Empire) that comprise the historical homeland of the Armenians. Western Armenia, also referred to as Byzantine Armenia, emerged following...
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  • The demographics of the Ottoman Empire include population density, ethnicity, education level, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population...
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    The Armenian question was the debate following the Congress of Berlin in 1878 as to how the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire should be treated. The term...
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    The partition of the Ottoman Empire (30 October 1918 – 1 November 1922) was a geopolitical event that occurred after World War I and the occupation of...
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    The Ottoman Empire came into World War I as one of the Central Powers. The Ottoman Empire entered the war by carrying out a small surprise attack on the...
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    "The Real Turkish Heroes of 1915". The Armenian Weekly. 29 July 2013. Kevorkian, Raymond (3 June 2008). "The Extermination of Ottoman Armenians by the...
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    to the 1914 Ottoman population estimates) and 185,000 Armenians (according to the Armenian Patriarch's 1912 estimate) in the Van Vilayet. In the city...
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    The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (1908–1922) was a period of history of the Ottoman Empire beginning with the Young Turk Revolution and ultimately...
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    the war, "the future of the Armenians as a political community in the Ottoman Empire was very bleak". Historian Taner Akçam argues that "the Armenian...
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    efforts to counter Ottoman forces and mitigate the Armenian genocide during the first World War. Early in World War I, the Ottoman Empire commenced efforts...
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    military ally of the Ottoman Empire, which perpetrated the Armenian genocide. Many Germans present in eastern and southern Anatolia witnessed the genocide, but...
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  • most of the Armenian population of Turkey (then the Ottoman Empire) lived in the eastern parts of the country that Armenians call Western Armenia (roughly...
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    the main Armenian-populated vilayets ("provinces") of the Ottoman Empire. These were Van, Erzurum, Mamuret-ul-Aziz, Bitlis, Diyarbekir and Sivas. The...
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    The Blue Book, officially titled The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-1916, was an official report commissioned by the British Parliament...
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    the Ottoman persecution of Armenians was a genocide. However, despite the recognition of the genocidal character of the massacre of Armenians in scholarship...
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  • during World War I and the following years, initially seeking improved status for Armenians in the Ottoman and Russian Empires but eventually attempting...
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    denied the genocide as they carried it out, claiming that Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were resettled for military reasons, not exterminated. In the genocide's...
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  • Armenians in the Ottoman Empire include: Abraham Pasha, civil servant and diplomat Güllü Agop, actor, founder of modern Turkish theatre Aram Andonian...
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  • neighboring Ottoman Empire until the beginning of the 20th century. Armenians were influential and active in the modernization of Iran during the 19th and...
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    area that was traditionally made up of Ottoman Muslims and Armenians. In the Ottoman Empire, in accordance with the Muslim dhimmi system, Greek Christians...
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    uprising in Russian Armenia. Djevdet demanded that Armenians furnish 4,000 volunteers, according to conscription in the Ottoman Empire. The Armenians refused...
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    in the summer months). The bilingual Lraper is in Armenian and Turkish. List of Armenian Patriarchs of Constantinople Armenians in the Ottoman Empire...
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    armed bands in reaction to the mass murder of Armenians and the pillage of Armenian villages by criminals, Turkish and Kurdish gangs, Ottoman forces, and...
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