Musa Dagh

(Musa-Ler) Mountain and village in Cilicia. In the time of the Armenian Genocide in July of 1915, the Armenians of Musa-Dagh organized a desperate resistance and held out against the Turkish siege in a dramatic fight for survival. French navies then rescued those remained alive. The heroic defense of Musa-Dagh was pictured by the Austrian novelist Franz Werfel.

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