Mount Musa

Turkey / Hatay / Samandag /
 mountain, invisible
Part of the Nur/Amanos Mountains
Musa Dagh (meaning "Moses Mountain") was the site of resistance by the Armenians during the Armenian Genocide. The denizens of that region were violently expelled from their six villages (Kaboussieh, Yogohonoluk, Bitias, Wakef, Khodr Bey, Hedj Habibli) by the Ottomans in 1915. As Ottoman Turkish forces converged upon the town, the populace aware of the impending danger fell back upon Musa mountain and repeatedly thwarted assaults for fifty-three days. Allied warships, most notably French, in the Mediterranean responded to distress signals and rescued the remaining survivors just as ammunition and food provisions were being exhausted. The warships then transported them to Port Said, Egypt. A tomb exists in the city of Port Said of some martyrs of Musa Dagh.These historical events later inspired Franz Werfel to write his novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933), a fictionalized account based on Werfel's detailed research of historical sources. There is now a movie based on the novel.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_Dagh
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Coordinates:   36°8'43"N   35°57'3"E

Comments

  • The resistance of the Armenians in Musa Dagh was legendary, captured in the famous fictional international bestseller by Franz Werfel, "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh". The actual resistance in fact lasted 53 days, until French ships unexpectedly arrived and rescued the survivors. Today, just one tiny Armenian village survives on this mountain, in fact the only Armenian village remaining in all of Turkey.
  • The wikipedia commons photo isn't Musa Dagh but Keldagh. The picture was TAKEN from Musa Dagh.
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