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    Սուրիական Ճեզիրէն եւ Հայերը 1920ականներուն. Ֆրանսական Հոգատարութեան Գաղութատիրական Դրուագ մը
    (2018) Tachjian, Vahe
    In the early 1920s thousands of Armenian refugees were settled in the Syrian Jezira district. These new settlements were established at a time when thousands of Armenians had already been settled and had started to make a living in Aleppo, Beirut and Alexandretta refugee camps. These newest refugees coming from Turkey were settled in little known localities like Jezira and elsewhere, far from other Syrian Armenian settlements. The new arrivals were mostly Kurdish-speaking Armenians who had been uprooted from rural regions east of Diarbekir as well as from areas southwest of Bitlis. The paper highlights the settlement of these new incoming refugees and examines their treatment by the French mandate authorities, who had adopted a colonization policy concerning Jazira. The settlement of the refugee Armenians in that area was planned to provide strong leverage for the success of this colonization policy. This is the time when new Armenian settlements like Hasake and Kamishli mushroomed in Syrian Jezira, where the Assyrian and Armenian settlements were envisaged as playing a pivotal role in the adoption of the policy.