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{{Mergefrom|Battle of Van|date=May 2007}}
{{Infobox Military Conflict
|conflict=Van Resistance<br>Վասպուրականի ապստամբությունը
|image=[[Image:Van Defenders.jpg|280px]]
|caption=Armenian troops holding a defense line against Turkish forces in the walled city of Van in May 1915.
|date=[[April 19]], [[1915]] - [[May 6]], [[1915]]
|place=City of [[Van, Turkey|Van]], [[Van Province, Ottoman Empire|vilâyet of Van]]
|result=Armenian victory
(contracted; show full)s self-proclaimed "''kesab taburi,''" or butcher battalions, numbering some 5,000 men. <ref>Walker, ''Survival'', p. 211.</ref> To counter them, the Armenian defenders had 1,500 able bodied riflemen who were supplied with 300 rifles and 1,000 pistols and antique weapons. The defenders were essentially protecting 30,000 residents and 15,000 refugees in an area of roughly one square kilometer of the Armenian Quarter and suburb of Aigestan. Jevdet 
earlier had allowed Armenian survivors from the villages, now refugees to enter the city through his lines as part of his strategy to subdue the defenders with more ease.
[[Image:Van1.jpg|300px|thumb|Defense of Van]]
After easily fighting off the initial assaults, the Armenian defenders of Van with the leadership of [[Aram Manougian|Aram of Van]], established a local provisional government dealing with defense, provisions,  and administration – and foreign relations, to ensure that the neutrality of foreign property was respected. Judges, police and health officials were appointed.<ref>Walker, ''Survival'', 207.</ref>

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[[Category:History of the Ottoman Empire]]
[[Category:Middle Eastern theatre of World War I]]
[[Category:Armenian Genocide]]
[[Category:Armenian resistance]]


[[es:Resistencia de Van]]