Musa Dağı
| Musa Dağı | ||
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 Monument on the Musa Dağı |
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| height | 1355 m | |
| location | Province Hatay ( Turkey ) | |
| Coordinates | 36 ° 15 '30 " N , 35 ° 54' 13" E | |
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The Musa Dağı ( Armenian Musa Ler , "Mosesberg") is a 1355 m high mountain in the Nurgebirge in southern Turkey . It is located southwest of İskenderun around 25 kilometers west of Antakya on the northeastern Mediterranean coast in historic Cilician Lesser Armenia .
History
The Musa Dagh was refuge of a resistant group of more than 4000 during the Armenian genocide in 1915 by the government of the then Ottoman Empire out of their villages fled Armenians under the leadership of former officer Moses the Kalousdian . In the 1916 report on the situation of the Armenian people in Turkey by Johannes Lepsius , the event is mentioned:
“A group of 4058, including 3004 women and children, were able to flee to the Jebel Musah from villages near Suidije on the outflow of the Orontes . He was picked up on the coast by a French cruiser and taken to Alexandria. "
In fact, five French warships were on the 12./13. September 1915 involved in the rescue of the total of 4092 surviving Armenians from Musa Dağı and their evacuation to Port Said . The action took place under the command of Rear Admiral Gabriel Darrieus, commander of the 2nd Division of the 3rd Mediterranean Squadron. The armored cruiser Amiral Charner (347 rescued Armenians), the armored cruiser Desaix (303), the protected cruiser D'Estrées (459), the aircraft mother ship Foudre (1042) and the protected cruiser Guichen (1941) were involved.
Literary and cinematic treatment
Known is the mountain as Musa Dagh by his portrayal in the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel , where Werfel describes the genocide of the Armenians in literary form. Also in Terry George's film "The Promise", the last act deals with the evacuation of the Armenians from Musa Dağı.
See also
- Vakıflı
- The Promise , American film by Terry George , 2016
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Murder of the Armenians. The Children of Musa Dagh Spiegel Online, May 21, 2007. Retrieved December 20, 2010
- ↑ Johannes Lepsius : Report on the situation of the Armenian people in Turkey . Unchangeable New edition with original text of the 1916 edition, Bad Schussenried 2011, ISBN 978-3-87336-368-7 , p. 137
- ^ Pierre Joseph Gabriel Georges Darrieus (born February 21, 1859 in Toulouse , † September 21, 1931 in Toulon ), 1912 rear admiral, 1916 vice admiral; In 1889 he was in command of the French Navy's first submarine , the Gymnote .
- ^ Le Contre-Amiral Darrieus, Commandant la 2e Division et pi la 3e Escadre de la Méditerranée, à M. Victor Augagneur, Ministre de la Marine; Dépêche n ° 293. Secret. A bord du Jauréguiberry, en mer, le 22 septembre 1915.