Years of service 1724-1728 Died 1735 | Name Avan Yuzbashi | |
Allegiance Armenian national movement Rank Supreme commander of the five melikdoms of Artsakh. | ||
Avan Yuzbashi (1670–1735) was an 18th-century commander of Armenian armies in Nagorno Karabakh. He was instrumental in aiding David Bek's forces and gaining victories over the forces of Safavid Iran and the Ottoman Empire in Zangezur region. In a letter to the Russian monarch, Yuzbashi wrote, "We will fight until that time when we will enter the service of the tsar, and all will perish to the last one but we will not leave Christianity; we will fight for our faith." Kekhva Chelebi, an Armenian patriot who maintained correspondence between the meliks of Karabakh and the Russian authorities, reports:
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