Stepan Zorian
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Stepan Zorian (Armenian: Ստեփան Զօրեան, 1867–1919), better known by his nom de guerre Rostom (Script error: No such module "Lang".), was one of the three founders of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and a leader of the Armenian national liberation movement.
Founding of the ARF
Zorian was born in the village of Tsghna in the Erivan Governorate of the Russian Empire (now located in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan). He attended college in Moscow but dropped out before graduating. He eventually went to Tiflis, Georgia, where he met Christapor Mikaelian and Simon Zavarian, all would become revolutionaries. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".They co-founded the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) in 1890. Their new political party had a major impact on Armenians. It gained support by demanding reforms and taking up arms to defend Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Works and travels
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Post Constitution days
During the 1908 Constitutional revolution in Turkey, he moved to Garin. In 1914, World War I broke out, he moved to Europe and then to the Caucasus. There he participated in the Armenian-Tatar wars. During the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, he participated in the revolution alongside Persian revolutionaries.[1] He also directs the fight of self-defense in Baku. After a disastrous result, he fled to Iran with thousands of Armenians. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Death
Zorian died in 1919 in Tiflis, aged 52. He was the only founder of the ARF to live to see an independent Armenia.
References
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- ↑ Dominik J. Schaller, Jürgen Zimmerer (2013). Late Ottoman Genocides: The Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and Young Turkish Population and Extermination Policies. Routledge. Template:ISBN p. 84.
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Sources
- Rosdom biography in Armenian and English
- Mihran Kurdoghlian, Badmoutioun Hayots, C. Hador (translated from the Armenian), Armenian History, volume III, p. 34, Athens, Greece: 1996 Template:Isbn
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- 1867 births
- 1919 deaths
- Armenian revolutionaries
- People from the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
- People of the Persian Constitutional Revolution
- Armenian independence activists
- Armenian expatriates in Bulgaria
- People from the Russian Empire
- Russian Constituent Assembly members