Movses Silikyan
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Movses Silikyan or Silikov was an Armenian general who served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and later in the army of the First Republic of Armenia. He is regarded as a national hero
Movses Silikyan portrait
Movses Silikyan
Turkish invasion of Armenia
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The Turkish invasion of Armenia, also known as the Turkish–Armenian War and known in Turkey as the Eastern Front of the Turkish War of Independence, was a conflict fought between the recently establis
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…after the suppression of the uprising. In September 1920, Turkish nationalist forces loyal to the Government of the Grand National Assembly started the Turkish–Armenian War in order to capture territory from Armenia and prevent the cession of four Ottoman provinces to Armenia according to the Treaty of Sèvres. During the…
Araratian regiment going to the Turkish–Armenian front, 1920
Armenian civilians flee Kars after its capture by Turkish forces
Destroyed Yerevan after Turkish-Armenian war, 1920