An Armenian refugee, wearing a scarf and a pack on her back. [LCID: 34290]
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An Armenian refugee

An Armenian refugee, wearing a scarf and a pack on her back. Ottoman Empire, 1918-20.

Sometimes called the first genocide of the twentieth century, the Armenian genocide refers to the physical annihilation of Armenian Christian people living in the Ottoman Empire from spring 1915 through autumn 1916. There were approximately 1.5 million Armenians living in the multiethnic Ottoman Empire in 1915. At least 664,000 and possibly as many as 1.2 million died during the genocide, either in massacres and individual killings, or from systematic ill treatment, exposure, and starvation.

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