Place
Harput
Town in eastern Anatolia, seat of the province of Mamuret-ul-Aziz in 1915, where Americans ran a college.
- Also known as
- Kharberd, Kharput, Mamuret-ul-Aziz
Connections 2
involved in
- Deportations and killings of Ottoman Armenians, 1915 to 1916 where the U.S. consul reported the deportations Primary record 1
location of
- Deportations from Harput, June 1915 Primary record 1
Proof 1 source
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1915, Supplement, document 1400: the Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State, 10 July 1915, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 10 Jul 1915.
Primary record
Consul Davis of Harput reports:
Night of June 23 several hundred other Armenians recently arrested, including professors American College, were sent away in the middle of the night without food, clothing, or money.
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