Armenian National Movement
Armenian national movement (Armenian: Հայ ազգային-ազատագրական շարժում Hay azgayin azatagrakan sharzhum), also known as the "Armenian revolutionary movement" and Armenian national liberation movement was the Armenian national effort to re-establish an Armenian state in the historic Armenian homelands of eastern Asia Minor and the Transcaucasus. The Armenian national movement developed long after the Greek movement with the rise of nationalism under the Ottoman Empire; however the factors contributing to the emergence made the movement far more similar to that of the Greeks than those of other ethnic groups of the region. Aside from the individual heroes who sacrificed their lives for national liberation, the movement was principally led by three political parties: Social Democrat Hunchakian Party, Armenian Democratic Liberal Party (Ramgavar Party, originally known as the Armenakan) and Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), the largest and most influential of the three. The involvement of the European powers in the Armenian Question provided a powerful impetus to the previously suppressed aspiration for national liberation and led to the development of a national liberation ideology and a fundamental transformation in Armenian national identity.
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