Armash
Ghost town · Ottoman Empire
- Abandoned
- 1916
- Founded
- 1611
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.849, 30.198
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
Armash was a small Armenian-populated town located in the Ottoman Empire, near the Sea of Marmara. With its seminary and monastery of Charkhapan Surb Astvatsatsin, Armash served as the spiritual center of Armenians in western Asia Minor until 1915, when its inhabitants were rounded up and sent on death marches to the Syrian desert by orders of the leaders of the Committee of Union and Progress party.