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Sardarabad 1918: How Armenia Stopped the Turks
In May 1918, the fate of the Armenian people hung by a thread. The Ottoman army was advancing on Yerevan, the Russian Empire had collapsed, and the First Republic of Armenia barely existed on paper. Yet at Sardarabad — a dusty plain near Mount Ararat — a ragtag army of refugees, priests, and fedayee fighters turned the tide. This episode walks through the three-day battle, the commanders like Movses Silikyan and Aram Manukian, the desperate logistics of arming civilians with bolt-action rifles, and the political chaos in Tiflis as Armenian delegates negotiated the Treaty of Batum. We also…
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