Gohar hovhannisyan serop pasha biography

Armenian fedayi leader

Serob Vardanian (also spelled Serop Vartanian, Armenian: Սերոբ Վարդանեան; – 24 November ), better known by his noms de guerreAghbiur Serob (Աղբիւր Սերոբ) and Serob Pasha (Սերոբ Փաշա), was a famed Armenian military commander who organized a guerrilla network that fought against the Ottoman Empire during the latter part of the 19th century.

Life as a revolutionary

Serob was born in in the village of Sokhord (modern-day Serinbayır, Ahlat) in the district of Ahlat in the Bitlis Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.^[1] Around the age of twenty, he got into a fight with two Turks and ended up killing one of them.

Armenian militia

The murder forced him to flee to Constantinople. In , he travelled to Romania and opened a coffee shop there, intending to use the shop as a meeting site for young revolutionaries. He eventually joined the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and returned to Ottoman Armenia, in Bitlis Vilayet, where he took up arms to defe