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First Zeitun Resistance
	; The Revolt of the Armenians of Zeitun, by Vasily Khudiakov
Date	2 August 1862
Location	Zeitun, Ottoman Empire37°52′30″N 36°49′41″E / 37.87500°N 36.82806°E
Result	Armenian victory Ottoman troops pillage Alabaş; Ottoman troops withdraw from the region;
Belligerents
Armenian fedayees	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	Aziz Pasha of Marash
Strength
5,000	40,000
Casualties and losses
Less than 350	Heavy, at least 10,000

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The First Zeitun Resistance of 1862 was an armed conflict between the Armenians of Zeitun and the Ottoman Empire. Zeitun has for a long time been an autonomous, almost independent Armenian region within the Ottoman Empire. In the summer the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire tried to assert his dominance over the region to make the region under the control of him.

Resistance

The Armenians of Zeitun had historically enjoyed a period of high autonomy in the Ottoman Empire until the nineteenth century. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the central government decided to bring this region of the empire under tighter control and attempted to do this by settling Muslims in the villages around Zeitun.^[2]

References

^ (in Armenian) Nersisyan, Mkrtich G. "Զեյթունցիների 1895–1896 թթ. Ինքնապաշտպանական Հերոսամարտը" ("The Heroic Self-Defense of the People of Zeitun in 1895–1896"). Patma-Banasirakan Handes. No. 1-2 (143-144), 1996, pp. 7-16. With Russian abstract.
^ Barsoumian, Hagop. "The Eastern Question and the Tanzimat Era" in The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume II, p. 200.

[PBH-1] (in Armenian) Nersisyan, Mkrtich G. "Զեյթունցիների 1895–1896 թթ. Ինքնապաշտպանական Հերոսամարտը" ("The Heroic Self-Defense of the People of Zeitun in 1895–1896"). Patma-Banasirakan Handes. No. 1-2 (143-144), 1996, pp. 7-16. With Russian abstract.

[2] Barsoumian, Hagop. "The Eastern Question and the Tanzimat Era" in The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume II, p. 200.

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