Musa Dagh

Musa Dagh defense
	Part of the Armenian genocide
	; Map of the Musa Dagh Armenian Self-Defense.
Date	July 21 – September 12, 1915; (1 month, 3 weeks and 1 day)
Location	Ottoman Empire
Result	Armenian victory; Successful Armenian resistance; Eventual rescue of Armenians by the French navy
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Armenians
Commanders and leaders
Captain Rifaat Bey	Reverend Dikran Antreassian; Yesayi Yakhubian; Yesayi Aprahamian ; Nerses Kazandjian ; Movses Ter-Kalutsian
Strength
19,000 (4,000 regular troops and 15,000 fighters)	600 fighters; 4,000 Armenian Civilians
Casualties and losses
Unknown	18 fighters killed; 12 injured

Musa Dagh (Turkish: Musa Dağı; Armenian: Մուսա լեռ, romanized: Musa leṛ; Arabic: جبل موسى, romanized: Jebel Musa; meaning "Moses Mountain") is a mountain in the Hatay Province of Turkey. In 1915, it was the location of a successful Armenian resistance to the Armenian genocide, an event that inspired Franz Werfel to write the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh.

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