Armenian Genocide
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Religion, Ethics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History, Terrorism
- Subcategories: Empires, Dynasties, Ottoman Empire, Human Rights, Violence, Discrimination, Prejudice, Massacres, Genocide, Torture
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Russian/Former Soviet States History, Middle Eastern History
- Geographical Location: Middle East, Armenia, Turkey, Asia Minor, Asia, Central Asia
- Date: 1915-1918
Article abstract: The Armenian genocide results in the deportation and killing of between six hundred thousand and 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and marks the first state-organized genocide of an ethnic minority in the twentieth century.
Summary of Event
By the late nineteenth century, most of the historical territories of Armenia belonged to either the Ottoman Empire or the Russian empire. The Armenians represented an ethnic minority in both of these multicultural empires. In the predominantly Islamic Ottoman Empire, the Christian...
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