The Armenian Genocide: The Fall Of The Armenian Genocide

Luis Lopez 8D

The Armenian Genocide

I will be writing about the Armenian genocide that happened around 90 years ago. It is one of those genocides that were forgotten Not many people know about genocide because the one in peoples head is the holocaust the one that happened during world war II with Adolf Hitler killing millions of jews or people that didn't look like germans. The Armenians live in Armenia but I heard it is called republic of armenia not sure. Most armenians live now around europe scattered. So, I will be explaining what happen before, the start , the peak of the genocide, falling of the genocide, and the fall of the Armenian genocide.

The Armenians are an ancient people whose home has been in the southern Caucasus since the 7th century BC. Mongol, Persian, Russian and Ottoman (Turkish) empires have fought on and over this region for many centuries."Armenian Genocide."Armenian Genocide. Web. 15 Apr. 2014. . At the end of the 19th century, Turkey and Russia were recovering from a war with each other. In the west, 2.5m Christian Armenians were governed by the Turks; eastern Armenia was in Russian hands. A surge in Armenian nationalism gave the Armenian leaders confidence to demand political reforms."Armenian Genocide."Armenian Genocide. Web. 15 Apr. 2014. . This was unwelcome to both Ottoman and Russian powers, afraid of armed partisan resistance or even the revival of interstate war. They began to repress Armenians even more harshly."Armenian Genocide."Armenian Genocide. Web. 15 Apr. 2014. . In some Turkish Armenian provinces large-scale massacres were carried out from 1894 ...

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...assing the old principality of Cilicia, once an independent Armenian state between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, the province of Adana had been spared the 1890's massacres. The disturbances were most severe in the city of Adana where a reported 4,437 Armenian dwellings were torched, resulting in the razing of nearly half the town and prompting some to describe the resulting inferno as a "holocaust." The outbreaks spread throughout the district and an estimated 30,000 Armenians were reported killed. While attempts at resistance in Adana proved futile, and Armenians in smaller outlying villages were brutally slaughtered, two towns inhabited mostly by Armenians organized a successful defense. Hadjin in the Cilician Mountains withstood a siege, while the 10,000 Armenians of Dortyol held off 7,000 Turks who had surrounded their town and cut off its water supply.