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Two Nineteenth-Century Syriac Orthodox Colophons Giving Accounts of the Hamidian Massacres

Études Arméniennes Contemporaines, 2022
This article introduces two late nineteenth-century colophons written by Syriac Orthodox scribes outside Anatolia commenting on the series of massacres occurring in 1894-1896 across the Ottoman Empire better known as the “Hamidian Massacres” after the ...
Simon Luke Robinson Burke
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The Hamidian Massacres, 1894-1897: Disinterring a Buried History

Études Arméniennes Contemporaines, 2018
In this postface, Ronald Suny concludes on the historiographical moment reflected in issues no. 10 and no 11 of Études arméniennes contemporaines dedicated to the massacres of the Hamidian period.
Ronald Grigor Suny
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Rethinking the “Hamidian Massacres”: The Issue of the Precedent

Études Arméniennes Contemporaines, 2018
This text is an introduction to the theme issue of Études arméniennes contemporaines on “The Massacres of the Hamidian Period: Global Narratives and Local Approaches”.
Boris Adjemian, Mikaël Nichanian
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Armenian Resistance to the Hamidian Massacres

Genocide Studies and Prevention, 2022
Between 1894 and 1896, the Hamidian massacres claimed the lives of more than 100,000 Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. This article presents an exploratory analysis of Armenian resistance to the massacres. It examines the context and contours of resistance, including the strategies employed, scope and organization of resistance efforts.
Deborah Mayersen
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Deception and Violence in the Ottoman Empire: The People's Theory of Crowd Behavior During the Hamidian Massacres of 1895

Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2020
AbstractThis article is an historical ethnography of the popular conceptualizations of crowd behavior during the pogroms against the Armenians in the Ottoman East in 1895–1896. It draws on contemporary sources like official telegrams, governmental reports, letters of American missionaries, and Armenian periodicals to show that observers with otherwise ...
Ali Sipahi
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Western English-Language Historiography of the Hamidian Massacres (1970s-2010s)

Ts'eghaspanagitakan Handes, 2021
This historiographical essay explores how the scholarship on the Hamidian massacres has evolved in Western English-language scholarship over the past fifty years introducing the main debates on this topic. The discussion reveals that almost all scholars have reflected on the question of “continuity” between the Hamidian massacres and the Armenian ...
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Mass Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage During the Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896)

International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, 2023
The policy of destruction of the Armenian cultural heritage in the Ottoman Empire began with the conquest of Western Armenia and has continued until the present day. Over the centuries, Armenian culture, as part of the Empire’s Christian culture, has either been destroyed spontaneously, in vast swathes or undergone various manifestations of ...
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The Armenian Population of the Diarbekir Province of Western Armenia During Hamidian Massacres

Ts'eghaspanagitakan Handes, 2020
In the province of Diarbekir, as in other provinces of Western Armenia, the massacres of Armenians in 1895 were organized by the authorities and carried out by ordinary Muslim citizens as well as by the army and police. In this province, as well as in others, tens of thousands of Armenians were killed, as were hundreds of other Christians.
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“Thanksgiving for Americans, We Mourn Massacred Armenians”: Commemoration, Identity, and the Search for Prevention in the American Armenian Response to the Hamidian Massacres of the 1890s

Nationalities Papers
Abstract In response to the Hamidian massacres of 1894–1897, Armenian immigrants held commemorative events in the US that concurred with their activism for the Armenian Question. Although largely overlooked in scholarship, these commemorative practices offer insights into the early history of this community and the memory of the late ...
Gevorg H Vardanyan
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Denying the Hamidian Massacres: Ottoman Narratives, Armenian Activism, and the Struggle Over the Memory in the United States, 1890s

International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies
This article examines the Ottoman Empire’s denial of the Hamidian massacres (1894–1896) in the United States, focusing on the efforts of Ottoman Minister Alexander Mavroyeni Bey and his collaborators. Drawing on primary sources and secondary literature, it analyzes how the Ottoman diplomatic mission in Washington sought to reframe reports of anti ...
Gevorg Vardanyan, Narine Hakobyan
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