Victory Day of the Battle of Sardarapat in Armenia
Victory Day of the Battle of Sardarapat in Armenia is held on May 26. The battle of the First World War, which took place on May 21-24, 1918 between the Armenian military units and the Turkish troops invading Eastern Armenia. This event in the third decade of the month May is annual. Help us
The Battle of Sardarabad was a battle of the Caucasus campaign of World War I that took place near Sardarabad, Armenia, from 21 to 29 May 1918, between the regular Armenian military units and militia on one side and the Ottoman army that had invaded Eastern Armenia on the other. As Sardarabad is approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of the capital of Yerevan, the battle not only halted the Ottoman advance into the rest of Armenia, but also prevented the complete destruction of the Armenian nation. In the words of Christopher J. Walker, had the Armenians lost this battle, "it is perfectly possible that the word Armenia would have henceforth denoted only an antique geographical term".
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