First Sasun Resistance | |||||||
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Part of Armenian resistance during the Armenian genocide | |||||||
Location of the 1894 and 1904 Sasun uprisings | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Hunchak Party | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Mihran Damadian Hampartsoum Boyadjian Hrayr Dzhoghk | Abdul Hamid II | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
8,000[1] | 10,000[1] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
20,000 rebel and civilians[1] | 550[1] |
The Sasun rebellion of 1894, also known as the First Sasun resistance (Armenian: Սասնո առաջին ապստամբութիւն), was the conflict between Ottoman Empire's Hamidiye forces and the Armenian fedayi belonging to the Armenian national movement's Hunchakian party in the Sasun region.