Salem on History | Armenian Genocide

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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...

Salem on History | Armenian Genocide

At a glance:

Summary of Event

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