Qualla: Agulis Massacre https://qualla.com/agulis-massacre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:32 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/b/t/agulis-massacre-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Agulis Massacre https://qualla.com/agulis-massacre Agulis Massacre: Introduction https://qualla.com/agulis-massacre/ Photo credit Personal archive, Public domain. Agulis had survived everything. Founded in antiquity as part of the Vaspurakan province of the Armenian kingdom, it endured Persian conquest, Mongol invasion, and Ottoman-Safavid wars while maintaining its identity as an Armenian cultural center of trade and craftsmanship. Its merchants had cultivated cooperative relationships with their Muslim neighbors for generations. Then, on Christmas Eve 1919, the town was destroyed. The Agulis massacre was not a sudden eruption of ancient hatred but the product of a very modern crisis: the violent birth of nation-states from the corpse of an empire, and the ethnic cleansing that accompanied the drawing of new borders.

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/b/t/agulis-massacre-wp/tnbt-agulis-massacre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Agulis Massacre: The Last Armenian Stronghold https://qualla.com/agulis-massacre/ Photo credit Personal archive, Public domain. The Agulis district held a distinction unique in Nakhchivan: during the centuries of Iranian Armenian rule, it was the only administrative unit in the region to retain an Armenian majority before the Russian conquest. Its merchants played a key role in trans-Araxes trade, connect...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/b/t/agulis-massacre-wp/tnbt-agulis-massacre-the-last-armenian-stronghold.mp3 0:06 2 full Agulis Massacre: A Siege by Starvation https://qualla.com/agulis-massacre/ Photo credit Personal archive, Public domain. In the spring of 1919, the First Republic of Armenia extended administrative control over the Sharur-Nakhichevan region, designating Agulis as the center for the subregion of Goghtan. But a Muslim insurgency broke out that summer, and by August the region had come under Azerbaija...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/b/t/agulis-massacre-wp/tnbt-agulis-massacre-a-siege-by-starvation.mp3 0:06 3 full Agulis Massacre: Christmas Eve, 1919 https://qualla.com/agulis-massacre/ Photo credit Personal archive, Public domain. On December 17, refugees from Zangezur forced their way into Lower Agulis and attacked its Armenian inhabitants, who retreated to the upper town. A week later, on December 24, the violence became systematic. Armed groups entered Upper Agulis and began pillaging. What followed was...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/b/t/agulis-massacre-wp/tnbt-agulis-massacre-christmas-eve-1919.mp3 0:06 4 full Agulis Massacre: The Weight of Contested Memory https://qualla.com/agulis-massacre/ Photo credit Personal archive, Public domain. The Agulis massacre sits within a larger pattern of reciprocal atrocities during the Armenian-Azerbaijani war of 1918 to 1920, a conflict in which both sides committed acts of ethnic violence. The broader context -- Armenian actions in Zangezur that displaced Muslim populations, ...

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