Battle of Dilman
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Battle of Dilman | |||||||
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Part of Persian Campaign (World War I) | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Russian Empire | Ottoman Empire | ||||||
Commanders | |||||||
General Nazarbekov Andranik |
Halil Bey | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
10 battalions of Russian Caucasus Army 1 battalion of Armenian volunteer units |
10-12 battalion & Kurdish Militia (tribesman) | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
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The Battle of Dilman (April 15 1915) was a battles fought at Dilman that was fought between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire and it resulted in a Tovmas Nazarbekian's victory.[1] Apart from the Armenian officers who served under the Tovmas Nazarbekian's battalion's of the Russian Caucasus Army, the Armenians also ran a volunteer battalions which, under the leadership of the commander Andranik.
[edit] Trivia
In 1919 Halil himself admitted to have killed approximately 300,000 Armenians.[2][3]