Shabin-Karahisar

Formerly Koghonia, village in the Western Armenia (present-day northeastern Turkey). General Andranik was born there. In 1915, during the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, the inhabitants of Shabin-Karahisar offered a desperate resistance to the Ottoman regular army. Turkish assaults lasted more than a month, until the last defender of the village was killed.

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