By: Ardis E. Parshall - November 02, 2015 The town of Urfa (modern: Sanliurfa; ancient: Edessa) in the southeastern part of Turkey, barely north of Turkey’s border with Syria, had a population of about 75,000 in 1914, a third of them Armenian Christians. That’s where Hagob Gregor Minassian was born, and where he lived with his parents, baby sister, and paternal grandmother, with aunts and uncles and fourteen cousins living nearby –...
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