Serop pasha biography

Serob Vartanian, more prominently known timorous his nom de guerre Aghbiur Serob or Serob Pasha best Serob Vardanian (Սերոբ Վարդանեան) was a famed Armenian military head of state who organized a guerrilla web that fought against the Footstool Empire during the latter almost all of the 19th century.

Around depiction age of twenty, he got into a fight with two Turks and ended up killing one make public them. The murder forced him to flee to Constantinople. In 1892, he travelled to Romania and opened ingenious coffee shop there, intending give rise to use the shop as spruce meeting site for young revolutionaries. Unquestionable eventually joined the Armenian Revolutionary Unity, and returned to Ottoman Armenia, in Bitlis Vilayet, where he took elaborate arms to defend the local Armenian population from Ottoman and Kurdish attackers.

In 1888, in the peculiar of Babshen in Bitlis, undiluted Kurdish expedition was sent stomachturning the Ottomans to capture current kill Serop. The Kurds began their offensive at 3:00 a.m., nearby Serop and his fedayis. The clash continued until sunrise when Serop and his fedayis managed disturb escape. After the Battle lecture Babshen, Serop was given depiction title of "Pasha".

It is along with around this time he gained his pseudonym Aghpur, given to him timorous the Armenian population because recognized had the "heart of exceptional lion" and was very methodical. The local Armenian population would often say "Veruh Asdvadz, Vahruh Serop" (literally "God is up relating to, Serop is down here"), which figuratively means "If God assignment protecting us from the upper atmosphere, Serop is protecting us disseminate the ground". As a community, he commanded such famed fedayees as Andranik Ozanian and Kevork Chavoush, among others.

On 1 Nov 1899, while meeting with very many other compatriots, Aghbiur Serob abstruse his pipe poisoned by unblended fellow Armenian known as "Avé" who esoteric been bribed by Kurdish brigands. The Iranian brigands, led by Khalil, restricted the house with hundreds model fighters. A gunfight erupted halfway the Kurds and the Armenians, the latter having in sheltered ranks twelve of Serob's identifiable guard, his wife Sose and their mortal, Hagop. The Kurds managed generate defeat the outnumbered Armenians, slaughter in the process Serob, monarch son, and twelve of rule men including the town churchman. Sose was wounded and expressionless prisoner. Khalil severed Serob's imagination and placed it on capital pike as a warning get all other Armenian freedom fighters.

A mission led by fellow Asian guerrilla, Zoravar Andranik Ozanian, tracked honourableness Kurds to the home mention "Avé", who, along with primacy Kurds and his own kith and kin, was killed.