Place
Van
City on the eastern shore of Lake Van in eastern Anatolia.
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involved in
- Deportations and killings of Ottoman Armenians, 1915 to 1916 one of six provinces where convoys began Scholarship & press 1
location of
- Armed resistance at Van, 1915 Scholarship & press 2
Proof 2 sources
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The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia.
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Many of these convoys originated in six heavily Armenian provinces in eastern Anatolia—Trabzon, Erzurum, Bitlis, Van, Diyarbakir, Mamuretü'l Aziz, and the district of Maras—and, eventually, from virtually all areas of the Empire.
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World War I and the Armenian Genocide, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia.
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Nevertheless, an armed group rose against the Ottoman garrison in Van and had seized control of the city by the time the Russians arrived on May 18, 1915.
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