Musa Dagh Resistance

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The Musa Dagi (Armenian Musa Ler, "Moses Mountain ") is a 1,355 m high mountain in the south of Turkey. It is located about 25 kilometers west of Antakya on the northeastern Mediterranean coast in the historic Cilician Armenia Minor.

The Musa Dagi was a refuge of a group of 4058 Armenians under the leadership of the resistance fighter Moses The Kalousdian in the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 by the government of the former Ottoman Empire. In the report on the situation of the Armenian people in Turkey of Johannes Lepsius, the event is mentioned:

" From villages in Suidije at the mouth of the Orontes, a crowd of 4058, including 3004 women and children could flee to the Jebel - Musah. He was taken to the coast by a French cruiser and secure to Alexandria. "

Became known as the mountain Musa Dagh by his portrayal in the novel " The Forty Days of Musa Dagh " by Franz Werfel, where Werfel describes the genocide of the Armenians in literary form.