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Musa Dagh Resistance: Armenia's Siege of Hope
In 1915, as the Armenian Genocide unfolded across the Ottoman Empire, one community refused to march to its death. On the slopes of Musa Dagh — Mount Moses — overlooking the Mediterranean near the town of Suedia, roughly six thousand Armenians from surrounding villages made a stand. For fifty-three days, men, women, and children held out against Ottoman troops, building fortifications, rationing food, and fighting with whatever weapons they had. Their story of resilience and escape became a symbol of Armenian resistance, immortalized in Franz Werfel's novel 'The Forty Days of Musa…
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