Drastamat Kanayan (Armenian: Դրաստամատ Կանայեան; 31 May 1884 – 8 March 1956), better known as Dro (Դրո), was an Armenian military commander and politician...

fight the Soviets for an independent Armenia and commanded by General Drastamat Kanayan. The short-lived Republic of Armenia, established in 1918, was occupied...

the Turks and that the Armenian army and population were exhausted. Drastamat Kanayan and Hambardzum Terterian were authorized to enter negotiations with...

includes two parts: the Drastamat Kanayan Institute for National Strategic Studies and the Academic-Publishing Center. The Drastamat Kanayan Institute for National...

forces were commanded by Andranik Ozanian. Other leaders included Drastamat Kanayan, Hamazasp Srvandztyan, Arshak Gafavian, and Sargis Mehrabyan. An Ottoman...

Yerevan. They were opposed by Armenian forces under the command of Drastamat Kanayan. One prong of the three-pronged Ottoman attack, consisting of the...

negotiations having failed, the government of Armenia ordered General Drastamat Kanayan to force the Georgian troops out of Lori. Captured documents revealed...

provinces containing significant Armenian populations; for example, Drastamat Kanayan (Dro), went to Diyarbakir as a political organizer. The Committee...

defenders being bolstered by Turkish officers. On 10 August 1919, General Drastamat Kanayan launched a counteroffensive which recaptured 5 rebelling villages...

stages of the war, in 1915, he was appointed a deputy commander to Drastamat Kanayan (Dro), who led the 2nd Volunteer Battalion. Later on, in 1916, he...

larger anti-Armenian policy. On 11 May 1905, Dashnak revolutionary Drastamat Kanayan assassinated Russian governor general Nakashidze, who was considered...

Armenian volunteer corps 1st battalion (Andranik Ozanian) 2nd battalion (Drastamat Kanayan and Armen Garo) 3rd battalion (Hamazasp Srvandztyan nom de guerre...

began in May 1919, with 18,000 Armenian troops under the command of Drastamat Kanayan preparing for an offensive into Nakhchivan. However, this would quickly...

announced on 3 May 1919, after which Armenian forces commanded by Drastamat Kanayan (Dro) advanced southward into the district along the railway. On 13...

troops approached the Armenian garrison of only 3,000 men commanded by Drastamat Kanayan in Mastara, the Ottoman army had much more weapons and soldiers, however...

code "DRO") San Leandro, a city just south of Oakland, California Drastamat Kanayan, an Armenian general known as Dro Edwige-Renée Dro, Ivorian writer...

Season. A Vermont native, Kahan moved to Watertown in July 2022. Drastamat Kanayan, better known as Dro (Դրօ), was an Armenian military commander and...

Manukian – Minister of Internal Affairs of the First Republic of Armenia Drastamat Kanayan – military commander and member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation...

continued to exist until mid-June 1919, when Armenian troops led by Drastamat Kanayan advanced into it to gain control over the region. They managed to...

popular dictator Aram Manukian and the renowned military commander Drastamat Kanayan. It then began the daunting process of establishing a national administrative...

Jebejian, fedayee Hovhannes Hakhverdyan Balabekh Karapet, fedayee Drastamat Kanayan, fedayee Balabekh Karapet, fedayee Keri, fedayee Yeprem Khan, considered...

Antrang Chalabian ; translated from Armenian by Jack (2009). Dro (Drastamat Kanayan) : Armenia's first defense minister of the modern era. Los Angeles...

player of Azerbaijani descent Eduard Isabekyan, Armenian painter Drastamat Kanayan, Armenian military commander Sinan Oğan, Turkish politician; won a...

in the Battle of Dilman of the Persian Campaign.[citation needed] Drastamat Kanayan led his battalion into eleven battles in the neighborhood of Alashkert...

Gounaris  Anastasios Papoulas Georgios Hatzianestis  Henri Gouraud Drastamat Kanayan Movses Silikyan Sir George Milne Mehmed VI Damat Ferid Pasha Süleyman...

kilometres from Sardarabad by the evening of 24 May, and a few days later Drastamat Kanayan had driven them back towards Hamamlu, nowadays known as Spitak. The...

from 1933 to 1937, where he founded the Armenian Youth Federation. Drastamat Kanayan (Dro), the Defense Minister of Armenia from 1918 to 1919, lived in...

as a self-governing region on December 25, 1920. In January 1921 Drastamat Kanayan sent a telegram to Nzhdeh, suggesting allowing the sovietisation of...

Symon Petliura Noe Zhordania Parmen Chichinadze Alexander Khatisian Drastamat Kanayan Nasib bey Yusifbeyli Samad bey Mehmandarov Units involved Volunteer...

1991 – 20 October 1992 President Levon Ter-Petrosyan Preceded by Drastamat Kanayan (1920) Succeeded by Vazgen Manukyan Leader of the Republican Party...