The Armenian Revolutionary Federation, also known as Dashnaktsutyun, is an Armenian nationalist and socialist political party founded in 1890 in Tiflis, Russian Empire by Christapor Mikaelian, Stepan Zorian, and Simon Zavarian. As of 2023, the party operates in Armenia, Lebanon, Iran and in countries where the Armenian diaspora is present. The party was also active in Artsakh until the Azerbaijani offensive in September 2023. Although it has long been the most influential political party in the Armenian diaspora, it has a comparatively smaller proportional presence in modern-day Armenia. As of October 2023, the party was represented in two national parliaments, with ten seats in the National Assembly of Armenia and three seats in the Parliament of Lebanon as part of the March 8 Alliance.
The Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP), is the oldest continuously-operating Armenian political party, founded in 1887 by a group of students in Geneva, Switzerland. It was the first socialist party to operate in the Ottoman Empire and in Iran, then known as Persia. Among its founders were Avetis Nazarbekian, Mariam Vardanian, Gevorg Gharadjian, Ruben Khan-Azat, Christopher Ohanian, Gabriel Kafian, and Manuel Manuelian. Its original goal was attaining Armenia's independence from the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian national liberation movement.
Andranik Ozanian, commonly known as General Andranik or simply Andranik;, was an Armenian military commander and statesman, the best known fedayi and a key figure of the Armenian national liberation movement. From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, he was one of the main Armenian leaders of military efforts for the independence of Armenia.
Bourj Hammoud is a town and municipality in Lebanon located north-east of the capital Beirut, in the Matn District, and is part of Greater Beirut. The town is heavily populated by Armenians.
A. & M. Karagheusian, Inc. was a rug manufacturer headquartered at 295 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Manufacturing was located in Freehold Borough, New Jersey and operated for 60 years before closing in 1964. It employed 1,700 people at its peak operation in the 1930s. Bruce Springsteen wrote about the Karagheusian Rug Mill’s closing in his 1984 song "My Hometown".
Tekeyan Cultural Association Arshag Dickranian Armenian School was a private K-12 Armenian school in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
Hampartsoum Boyadjian, also known by his noms de guerreMurad and sometimes Medzn Murad, was an Armenian fedayi and a leading political activist of the Hunchak party.
The 20 Hunchakian gallows is the common name for the group of Hunchakian activists who were hanged in the Sultan Beyazıt Square of Constantinople on June 15, 1915, during the Armenian genocide.
Avetis Vardani Nazarbekian, also known as Nazarbek, Avo and Lerents, was an Armenian poet, journalist, political activist and revolutionary. He was one of the founders of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party.
Mariam Vardanian (1864–1941) was an Armenian political activist and revolutionary in the Russian Empire. She was one of the founders of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party.
Arpiar Arpiarian writer, the pioneer of realism in Armenian literature and a political activist. He was from the Ottoman Empire.
Girayr, born Harutiun-Mardiros Boyadjian, was an Armenian fedayee leader and activist of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party. He was the senior brother of fedayee leader Medzn Murad.
Ruben Khan-Azat, was an Armenian political activist, one of the founders and leaders of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party and Hunchak journal.
Stepan Sapah-Gulian was a prominent Armenian journalist, political scientist, intellectual and a leader of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party.
Arshak or Arshag Vramian was an Armenian revolutionary and a leading member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. He worked as an ARF activist in his native Constantinople before fleeing the police. He worked for the party in Bulgaria and Romania before moving to Geneva, where he served on the party's Western Bureau and edited the party organ Droshak. He lived in the United States from 1899 to 1907; while there, he edited the party newspaper Hairenik. He returned to the Ottoman Empire after the Young Turk Revolution restored the Ottoman constitution. He was a member of the Ottoman parliament elected from Van Province. He was killed by the Ottoman authorities in April 1915 at the start of the Armenian genocide.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation, also known simply as Tashnag, is an Armenian political party active in Lebanon since the 1920s as an official political party in the country after having started with small student cells in the late 1890s and early 20th century.
Arshag Nersesian, better known by his nom de guerre Sebouh or General Sebouh, was an Armenian military commander. He was the right-hand man of General Andranik Ozanian.
Arshag Chobanian was an Armenian short story writer, journalist, editor, poet, translator, literary critic, playwright, philologist, and novelist.
Gevorg Harutyuni Gharadjian, also known as S. T. Arkomed, was an Armenian political activist and revolutionary, one of the founders of Social Democrat Hunchakian Party.
Harutiun Jangülian was an Armenian historian, political activist, and member of the Armenian National Assembly. He was especially known for his involvement in the Kum Kapu demonstration. He spent six years imprisoned in exile. He returned to Constantinople and continued his political activity after his release. Jangülian was arrested on 24 April 1915, at the beginning of the Armenian genocide, deported, and ultimately executed.
