First Zeitun Resistance

First Zeitun Resistance

Zeytun
Date2 August 1862
Location
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[1]

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.