Drastamat Kanayan (Armenian: Դրաստամատ Կանայեան; 31 May 1884 – 8 March 1956), better known as Dro (Դրո), was an Armenian military commander and politician...

fight the Soviets for an independent Armenia and commanded by General Drastamat Kanayan. The short-lived Republic of Armenia, established in 1918, was occupied...

the Turks and that the Armenian army and population were exhausted. Drastamat Kanayan and Hambardzum Terterian were authorized to enter negotiations with...

forces were commanded by Andranik Ozanian. Other leaders included Drastamat Kanayan, Hamazasp Srvandztyan, Arshak Gafavian, and Sargis Mehrabyan. An Ottoman...

Yerevan. They were opposed by Armenian forces under the command of Drastamat Kanayan. One prong of the three-pronged Ottoman attack, consisting of the...

includes two parts: the Drastamat Kanayan Institute for National Strategic Studies and the Academic-Publishing Center. The Drastamat Kanayan Institute for National...

sculptor), (1830–1908) known as the first female professional sculptor Drastamat Kanayan, better known as Dro (Դրօ), was an Armenian military commander and...

provinces containing significant Armenian populations; for example, Drastamat Kanayan (Dro), went to Diyarbakir as a political organizer. The Committee...

negotiations having failed, the government of Armenia ordered General Drastamat Kanayan to force the Georgian troops out of Lori. Captured documents revealed...

popular dictator Aram Manukian and the renowned military commander Drastamat Kanayan. It then began the daunting process of establishing a national administrative...

larger anti-Armenian policy. On 11 May 1905, Dashnak revolutionary Drastamat Kanayan assassinated Russian governor general Nakashidze, who was considered...

stages of the war, in 1915, he was appointed a deputy commander to Drastamat Kanayan (Dro), who led the 2nd Volunteer Battalion. Later on, in 1916, he...

Armenian volunteer corps 1st battalion (Andranik Ozanian) 2nd battalion (Drastamat Kanayan and Armen Garo) 3rd battalion (Hamazasp Srvandztyan nom de guerre...

defenders being bolstered by Turkish officers. On 10 August 1919, General Drastamat Kanayan launched a counteroffensive which recaptured 5 rebelling villages...

announced on 3 May 1919, after which Armenian forces commanded by Drastamat Kanayan (Dro) advanced southward into the district along the railway. On 13...

continued to exist until mid-June 1919, when Armenian troops led by Drastamat Kanayan advanced into it to gain control over the region. They managed to...

fedayee Andranik, fedayee Arabo, fedayee Kevork Chavush, fedayee Drastamat Kanayan Aram Manukian Sebastatsi Murad, fedayee Garegin Nzhdeh Ruben Ter-Minasian...

Andranik Ozanian, "key figure", military commander, fedayee leader Drastamat Kanayan, "key figure" Karekin Pastermadjian, "key figure," politician , military...

Manukian – Minister of Internal Affairs of the First Republic of Armenia Drastamat Kanayan – military commander and member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation...

code "DRO") San Leandro, a city just south of Oakland, California Drastamat Kanayan, an Armenian general known as Dro Edwige-Renée Dro, Ivorian writer...

Simon Vratsian Tovmas Nazarbekian Andranik Ozanian Garegin Nzhdeh Drastamat Kanayan Movses Silikyan Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh Fatali Khan Khoyski † Nasib...

Antrang Chalabian ; translated from Armenian by Jack (2009). Dro (Drastamat Kanayan) : Armenia's first defense minister of the modern era. Los Angeles...

began in May 1919, with 18,000 Armenian troops under the command of Drastamat Kanayan preparing for an offensive into Nakhchivan. However, this would quickly...

as a self-governing region on December 25, 1920. In January 1921 Drastamat Kanayan sent a telegram to Nzhdeh, suggesting allowing the sovietisation of...

Paraskevopoulos Kimon Digenis (POW) Nikolaos Trikoupis (POW) Henri Gouraud Drastamat Kanayan Movses Silikyan Sir George Milne Mehmed VI Damat Ferid Pasha Süleyman...

Monument to the Battle of Abaran erected in 1978. Mausoleum of General Drastamat Kanayan near the battle memorial, reburied in Aparan on 28 May 2000. Aparan...

directed a successful military campaign with veteran fedayi commander Drastamat Kanayan against Muslim rebels in the Zangibasar and Vedibasar districts to...

player of Azerbaijani descent Eduard Isabekyan, Armenian painter Drastamat Kanayan, Armenian military commander Sinan Oğan, Turkish politician; won a...

Symon Petliura Noe Zhordania Parmen Chichinadze Alexander Khatisian Drastamat Kanayan Nasib bey Yusifbeyli Samad bey Mehmandarov Units involved Volunteer...

from 1933 to 1937, where he founded the Armenian Youth Federation. Drastamat Kanayan (Dro), the Defense Minister of Armenia from 1918 to 1919, lived in...