Sardarabad 1918: How Armenia Stopped the Turks

In May 1918, the fate of the Armenian people hung by a thread. The Ottoman army was advancing on Yerevan, the Russian Empire had collapsed, and the First Republic of Armenia barely existed on paper. Yet at Sardarabad — a dusty plain near Mount Ararat — a ragtag army of refugees, priests, and fedayee fighters turned the tide. This episode walks through the three-day battle, the commanders like Movses Silikyan and Aram Manukian, the desperate logistics of arming civilians with bolt-action rifles, and the political chaos in Tiflis as Armenian delegates negotiated the Treaty of Batum. We also explore why Sardarabad is both a founding myth and a contested memory — and how it shaped the borderland that became modern Armenia. No sensationalism, just the gritty detail of a people fighting for their last foothold. #Sardarabad #AramManukian #MovsesSilikyan #FirstRepublicOfArmenia #BattleOfSardarabad #OttomanEmpire #Caucasus #Yerevan #Ararat #TreatyOfBatum #Dashnaktsutyun #1918 #ArmenianGenocide #fedayee #WorldWarI #History #FexingoHistory #ArmenianHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo