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Dec 10 1919 "Corps d’armée s ‘apprêtant à recevoir le général Gouraud, Mersin, Cilicie, Syrie (actuellement en Turquie), A 19 927 10 décembre 1919" 

Soldiers preparing to receive General Gouraud, in Mersin, Cilicia, Syria (Now in Turkey), A 19 927 – 10 December 1919

Autochrome picture of French Senegalese soldiers standing to attention under an Armenian flag, in Cilicia, Turkey. Probably taken during the short-lived Armenian Autonomous Zone when the Allies were trying to set up a home for refugees and survivors of the Armenian Genocide


National flag of Armenia 

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