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The army of defence at Urmia, 1918

Place: Urmia · today Iran
Date: 1918

Armed men with rifles and bandoliers, described as "our army of defence", crowded in a street at Urmia in 1918, during the Assyrian defence of the city.

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Shedd, The Measure of a Man (1922), via Internet Archive

Mary Lewis Shedd · Public domain (published 1922)

The army of defence at Urmia, 1918

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