Musa Dagh Resistance is a defence movement of the

Armenians Armenians (, ) are an ethnic group indigenous to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.Robert Hewsen, Hewsen, Robert H. "The Geography of Armenia" in ''The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiq ...

in the region of

Musa Dagh Musa Dagh (; ; ; meaning "Moses Mountain") is a mountain in the Hatay Province of Turkey. In 1915, it was the location of a successful Armenian resistance to the Armenian genocide, an event that inspired Franz Werfel to write the novel '' The ...

when faced

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily t ...

. The resistance was occuring on July until September 1915 and finished when the insurgents was evacuated by French marine on September 12, 1915. This event was inspired the 1933 novel ''

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh ''The Forty Days of Musa Dagh'' () is a 1933 novel by Austrians, Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on events that took place in 1915, during the second year of the First World War and at the beginning of the Armenian genocide. The nove ...

'' and 2016 film '' The Promise''.

References

* Vahram L. Shemmassian, ''The Armenians of Musa Dagh : From Obscurity to Genocide Resistance and Fame 1840-1915,'' Fresno, The Press at California State University, 2020, 555 p. (ISBN 978-0912201696) {{history-stub July 1915