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Navruz

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Summary

The leader of forty Kurdish fighters who descended from the mountains into Başkale during the First World War. Their battle cries drove a much larger Russian force towards the plain, where it entered an ambush.

Names and spelling variants

Navruz; Nevruz; נברוז

Mentioned in the book

Chapter Six – Epilogue; segment 06.01 – Epilogue

Research note

The source gives only his first name, and no reliable external identification has been found.