WWI · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Deir ez-Zor and the Armenian genocide (1915–16)
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1915-16 — The terminus of the deportation columns: in the Syrian desert camps, the Armenians of Anatolia — driven from their homes by their own government under cover of war — are starved and massacred. Around a million to 1.5 million die. The word “genocide” was later coined with this crime in mind. Remember them.
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- Gallipoli and the widening of WWI (chapter 6 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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