Turkish massacre of Armenians

Category
War
Place
Middle East
Date
1915
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
Following the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, "the Armenians were to spend the next 900 years under either Turkish or Russian rule, not gaining their independence until the 1990s. With the Armenians being the victims of the first genocide of the twentieth century, theirs was to be a particularly cruel plight." [Catherwood: The Middle East, p. 95-7]

This event is linked to the following periods

PeriodMiner
Begin
End
Category
World War I
1914
1918
Wars