Battle of Dilman
| Battle of Dilman | |||||||
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| Part of the Persian Campaign of World War I | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Ottoman Empire | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Tovmas Nazarbekian Andranik Ozanian[2] | Halil Kut | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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10 battalions of Russian Caucasus Army 1 battalion of Armenian volunteers |
248 Officers 10,920 troops 12,000 irregular Kurdish cavalry[1] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | 3,500 killed(non-Ottoman sources)[1] | ||||||
The Battle of Dilman (April 15, 1915) was a battle fought at Dilman between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. More than half of the Ottoman troops were Kurdish, almost all of whom deserted.[3] The result was a Russian-Armenian victory under Tovmas Nazarbekian[4] and Andranik Ozanian. Apart from the Armenian officers who served under Tovmas Nazarbekian's Russian Caucasus Army, the Armenians also deployed a volunteer battalion under the leadership of their commander Andranik and with the participation of Smbat Baroyan.
References
- ^ a b c The Ottoman Treatment of the Assyrians, David Gaunt, A Question of Genocide, ed. Ronald Grigor Suny, Fatma Muge Gocek, Norman M. Naimark, (Oxford University Press, 2011), 255
- ^ Bryce, James (2000). The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915–1916. p. 109.
- ^ Trapped between the map and reality. Geography and perceptions of Kurdistan. Maria T. O'Shea. Routledge 2004. ISBN 0-415-94766-9 p. 95
- ^ America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915, p. 95 by Jay Murray Winter
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