Musa Dagh

Musa Dagh is a mountain inside the Hatay province of Turkey. In 1915 it became the vicinity of a a hit Armenian resistance to the Armenian Genocide, an occasion that inspired Franz Werfel to write down the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. The deportation orders of the Armenian population of modern Turkey, issued via the Ottoman government, in July 1915 reached the six Armenian villages of the Musa Dagh location: Kabusia, Yoghunoluk, Bitias, Vakef, Kheter Bey and Haji Habibli. As Ottoman Turkish forces converged upon the metropolis, the population, aware about the approaching hazard, refused deportation and fell returned upon Musa mountain, thwarting assaults for 53 days, from July to September 1915.

One of the leaders of the rebellion was Movses Der Kalousdian, whose Armenian first name was similar to that of the mountain. Allied warships, most considerably the French third squadron in the Mediterranean under command of Louis Dartige du Fournet, sighted the survivors, simply as ammunition and food provisions have been walking out. French and British ships, starting with the Guichen, evacuated 4200 guys, ladies and children from Musa Dagh to protection in Port Said. Starting in 1918, whilst the Sanjak of Alexandretta got here under French manipulate, the populace of the six Armenian villages lower back to their homes. In 1932 a monument was erected on the pinnacle of the mountain to commemorate the event.