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That the Armenians, even back in the days when their
number had been at its greatest, only made up a sixth o f
the population o f the region; that even in their strongest
vilayet, in Van itself, they only accounted for a third o f
the population ... So what?
Kars was the starting point for expansion - to Erzurum
and Sivas in the West, to Trabzon in the North, and to
Adana in the South. It was the cautious cleverness o f
Mustafa Kemal and the military genius o f Kazim
Karabekir that combined to thwart these Armenian plans.
In the spring o f 1919, the Armenians lauched an expansionist
campaign into Anatolia. Their first attack was directed against
Oltu.
A Georgian eagle. It was only with the help o f international
intervention that the Georgians were able to withstand the
Armenian war o f aggression o f 1920.
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