Armenian volunteer units during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War
The term fedayee was originally used during the Armenian national movement of late 19th and early 20th centuries, but it was also used to refer to the Armenian irregular forces in the early 1990s when the dispute with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh was turning into the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Here is a list of the major Armenian volunteer detachments during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
| Name | In Armenian | Transcribed | Number (max. est.) |
Commander | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armenian National Army | Հայոց Ազգային Բանակ (ՀԱԲ) | Hayots' Azgayin Banak (HAB) | Razmik Vasilyan | ||
| Yerkrapah Volunteer Battalion[1] | «Երկրապահ» կամավորական ջոկատ | «Yerkrapah» kamavorakan jokat | Vazgen Sargsyan | Name means "'The country is safe' volunteer brigade" | |
| Liberation Army | Ազատագրական բանակ | Azatagrakan banak | 300 | Leonid Azkaldian | |
| Crusaders[2] | «Խաչակիրներ» ջոկատ | «Khachakirner» jokat | Garo Kahkejian | ||
| The Deers | «Եղնիկներ» ջոկատ | «Yeghnikner» jokat | 400 | Shahen Meghrian | |
| Shushi Independent Battalion | «Շուշի» առանձնակի գումարտակ | «Shushi» arandznaki gumartak | Jirair Sefilian | Formed from mostly Syrian and Lebanese Armenians. Most were members of the ARF. | |
| Tigran the Great | Տիգրան Մեծ | Tigran Mets | 400 | Armenak Armenakyan | name ref. Tigranes the Great |
| Davit of Sasun Battalion | «Սասունցի Դավիթ» կամավորական ջոկատ | «Sasunts'i Davit'» kamavorakan jokat | 500 | Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan | |
| Dashnaktsakanner | Դաշնակցականներ | Dashnakts'akanner | 200 | Tatul Krpeyan | Members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashanktsutyun). |
| Sasun | «Սասուն» ջոկատ | «Sasun» jokat | 100 | Sasun Mikaelyan | The name is ref. Sason. |
| Ossetian Battalion | Օսական ջոկատ | Ōsakan jokat | Mirza Abayev | ||
| Ashot the Iron | Աշոտ Երկաթ | Ashot Yerkat' | 250 | Karapet Jadoyan[3] | name ref. Ashot II of Armenia |
| General Andranik | Անդրանիկ Զորավար | Andranik Zoravar | 400 | name ref Andranik | |
| Revengers | Վրիժառուներ | Vrizharuner | 200 | ||
| Haydat | Հայդատ | Haydat | 200 | ||
| Mush | Մուշ | Mush | 300 | Name ref. Muş | |
| Nork-Marash | Նորք-Մարաշ | Nork-Marash | 200 | name ref. Nork, Yerevan and Kahramanmaraş | |
| Malatia-Sebastia | Մալաթիա - Սեբաստիա | Malat'ia - Sebastia | 200 | Vahan Zatikyan | name ref; Malatia-Sebastia District |
| Arabo | Արաբո | Arabo | 200 | Simon Achikgyozyan (followed by Manvel Yeghiazaryan) |
name ref. Arabo |
| Glorious Warriors | Պարապած մարտիկներ | Parapats martikner | 300 | H.G. Mkrtchyan | |
| Detachment of Hrazdan | Հրազդանյան ջոկատ | Hrazdanyan jokat | 200 | Zarzand Danielian | |
| Tseghakron | Ցեղակրոն | Ts'eghakron | Hagop Khachatryan | ||
| Daredevils of Sassoun | Սասնա ծռեր | Sasna tsrer | Samvel Gevorgyan | name ref. Sason | |
| Suicide Squad | Մահապարտների ջոկատ | Mahapartneri jokat | 150 | Alexander Tamanyan | |
| Nart | Նարտ | Nart | name ref. Nart saga? | ||
| Black Panther | Սեվ հովազ | Sev hovaz | Ruben Egoyan | ||
| Cobra | Կոբրա | Kobra | B. Agasaryan, N. Gulyan | ||
| Aknalich | Ակնալիճ | Aknalich | name ref. Aknalich | ||
| Echmiadzin detachment | name ref. Echmiadzin | ||||
| Hadrut detachment | name ref. Hadrut (town) | ||||
| Sisian detachment | name ref. Sis, Armenia | ||||
| Kapan detachment | name ref. Kapan | ||||
| Martakert detachment | Norayr Danielian | name ref. Martakert | |||
| Nikol Duman | Նիկոլ Դուման | Nikol Duman | Armen Martirosyan | ||
References
- Shale Asher Horowitz, From Ethnic Conflict To Stillborn Reform: The Former Soviet Union And Yugoslavia, 2005, p. 83
- Bonner, Raymond. "Foreigners Fight Again in the Embattled Caucasus". New York Times. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
- (in Armenian) ԶԱԴՈՅԱՆ ԿԱՐԱՊԵՏ ՄԿՐՏՉԻ Archived 2016-02-05 at the Wayback Machine
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.