Musa Dagh
| Musa Dagh defense | |||||||
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| Part of the Armenian genocide | |||||||
Map of the Musa Dagh Armenian Self-Defense. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Ottoman Empire | Armenians | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Captain Rifaat Bey |
Reverend Dikran Antreassian Yesayi Yakhubian Yesayi Aprahamian Nerses Kazandjian Movses Ter-Kalutsian | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 19,000 (4,000 regular troops and 15,000 fighters) |
600 fighters 4,000 Armenian civilians | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown |
18 fighters killed 12 injured | ||||||
Musa Dagh (Turkish: Musa Dağı; Armenian: Մուսա լեռ, romanized: Musa leṛ; Arabic: جبل موسى, romanized: Jebel Musa; 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 Forty Days of Musa Dagh.