Hamidian massacres
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title:
Hamidian massacres
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The Hamidian massacres also called the Armenian massacres, were massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the mid-1890s. Estimated casualties ranged from 100,000 to 300,000, resulting in 50,000 orphaned children. The massacres are named after Sultan Abdul Hamid II, who, in his efforts to maintain the imperial domain of the declining Ottoman Empire, reasserted pan-Islamism as a state ideology. Although the massacres were aimed mainly at the Armenians, in some cases they turned into indiscri
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1894–1897 massacres of Armenians and Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamidian_massacres
date created:
2005-03-16T00:34:01Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T07:00:02Z
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