Aghbiur Serob

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Aghpyur Serob
Armenian National Liberation Movement
Spouse(s)Sose Mayrig; 2 sons

Serob Vardanian (also spelled Serop Vartanian,

guerrilla network that fought against the Ottoman Empire
during the latter part of the 19th century.

Life as a revolutionary

Serop Pasha with Armenian fedayis in the late 1890s (standing, second from right)

Serob was born in 1864 in the village of Sokhord (modern-day

Bitlis Vilayet, where he took up arms to defend the local Armenian population from Ottoman and Kurdish attackers.[2]

In 1898, in the village of Babshen in Bitlis, a Kurdish expedition was sent by the Ottomans to capture and kill Serop. The Kurds began their offensive at 3:00 a.m., surrounding Serop and his fedayis. The battle continued until sunrise when Serop and his fedayis managed to escape. After the Battle of Babshen, Serop was given the title of "Pasha". [citation needed]

Aghpyur

It is also around this time he gained his

Kevork Chavoush, among others.[3]

Death

On 1 November 1899, while meeting with several other compatriots, Aghbiur Serob had his pipe poisoned by a fellow Armenian known as "Avé" who had been bribed by

brigands. The Kurdish brigands, led by Khalil, surrounded the house with hundreds of fighters. A gunfight erupted between the Kurds and the Armenians, the latter having in its ranks twelve of Serob's personal guard, his wife Sose and their son, Hagop. The Kurds managed to defeat the outnumbered Armenians, killing in the process Serob, his son, and twelve of his men including the town priest. Sose was wounded and taken prisoner. Khalil severed Serob's head and placed it on a pike as a warning to all other Armenian freedom fighters.[4]

A mission led by fellow Armenian guerrilla, Zoravar

Andranik Ozanian, tracked the Kurds to the home of "Avé", who, along with the Kurds and his own family, was killed.[5]

Legacy

As leader of the

Sasoun almost completely independent. He was described as "one of the most outstanding Armenian revolutionaries" by Leon Trotsky.[6]

See also

References

  1. Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia (in Armenian). Vol. 1. Yerevan. 1975. p. 251.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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  2. ^ Kurdoghlian, Mihran. Badmoutioun Hayots (Armenian History). Athens: 1996 p. 67.
  3. ^ Kurdoghlian, Mihran. Badmoutiounk Hayots (Armenian History). Athens: 1996, p. 67.
  4. ^ Kurdoghlian, Mihran. Badmoutioun Hayots (Armenian History). Athens: 1996 pp 68-69.
  5. ^ Chalabian, Andranik. General Andranik and the Armenian Revolutionary movement. Beirut: 1986. pp. 131-32.
  6. ^ Trotsky 1980, p. 249.

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