Kukunian Expedition

Kukunyan Expedition
Date1890–1892
Location
Ottoman Empire and Russian Empire
Result

Defeat of Kukunyan

  • The defeat of Kukunyan against the Ottoman and Kurdish forces
  • Kukunyan and his army were captured and arrested by the Russian Empire and exiled to Siberia .
Belligerents
Armenian Revolutionary Federation Ottoman Empire
Kurdish troops		 Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Sarkis Kukunyan Unknown Unknown

The Kukunyan Expedition (Armenian: Կուկունեանի արշաւանքը) was an attempt by a small group of Armenian nationalists from the Russian Empire to launch an armed expedition across the border into the Ottoman Empire in 1890 in support of local Armenians.

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