Musa Dagh Factoids

For The Week of January 16, 2000

When did the Armenians settle in Musa Dagh?

Dates and origin are not yet established with certainty. Assumptions, usually based on the fact of Armenian presence in northwest Syria through the ages, variably indicate the pre-King Tigranes the Great (B.C. 95-55) period, the Tigranes era itself, the centuries following it, the episode of the Armenian Principality and Kingdom of Cilicia (A.D. 1080-1375), and thereafter.