www.Hadjin.com A Town No More

www.Hadjin.com A Town No More

This web site has been established to keep the many Hadjintsi descendents especially in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and even now to the seventh generations informed of the history and heritage of Hadjin, a town that exists no more. It existed on the same site that the town of Siambeyli exists today albeit in a very different context. I am sure that to many if not all the the readers of the www.Hadjin.com story will be perceived in a political context. However it is not a political statement but rather a representation of all the information and photographs that I and my late brother James have been able to accumulate.

My father Mark "Margos" Keshishian was born in Hadjin in 1894. He received his early education in Hadjin, Tarsus, Gaziantep. In Taurus College (high school ) in 1909 he received the medal for best Turkish language student and a gold pound as a prize. There after he attended Bardizag School and then entered the Syrian Protestant College /American University of Beirut. In 1915b he along with all other Empire male citizens was conscripted off the campus of AUB going on to serve in the 4th Ottoman Army/Southern Front Syria Palestine. His brother Garabed was already serving in the 4th army as well serving as a chavush (sargent) for a colonel in charge of all supplies going by rail to the southern front. Regrettably at the same time that they were serving, their father, brothers, sisters and extended family were marched into the desert in the forced deportations where they perished. The families of Hadjin were deported to Der Zor (also spelled Dayr az-Zawr, Deir ez Zor, and Deir al-Zur) in the desert that is now part of Syria.

Mark Keshishian and siblings

Defenders of Hadjin

Fidieh Hadjincies in Adana

Ottoman Troops Rescuing Hadjin from Siege 1909

The Castle

Roman Ruins at Hadjin, Turkey

Hadjin Area Neo-Hittite Relief

A young water carrier in Hadjin.

Hadjin Road in Winter

A Camel in the Hadjin Environs

Orphan boys in Hadjin

Hadjin Baby Bed

Threshing Teams in Hadjin

Threshing in the Hadjin Area

Threshing at a Hadjin Area Farm

Hadjin Protestant school circa 1903

Official Ottoman Inspection Party 1909

Kerdet the Hadjin Girls School Class of 1910

The Orphanage at Hadjin

Rose Lambert and the Mission at Hadjin

The Protestant School at Hadjin

The Fishmonger at the Hatay Market

• Avedis Keshishian Index

Keshishian, James

• James Keshishian Index

Keshishian, John MD

• John Keshishian Index

Keshishian, Garabed.

• Garabed Keshishian Index

Keshishian, Margaret

• Married to Garabed Kirkyasharian

Keshishian, Mark

• Mark Keshishian Index

Keshishian, Paul Boghos

• Sahag II Catholicos of Cilicia in Cairo with First Lt. Paul Keshishian

Kish, Zaven

• Zaven’s Story by Zaven Kish

• Nerese Danielian Armenian Priest Hadjin

Haig, Bob

• Fidieh Hadjincies in Adana
• Bob and Dolores Haig

Hanessian, John

• John Hanessian and Family

Hovanesian, John.

• The Castle

Jemal Pasha, Vali of Adana

• Official Ottoman Inspection Party 1909

• During the Great War Jemal Pasha led the 4th Army in Syria. Coincidentally Mark Keshishian was arrested in 1915 on the campus of American University in Beirut with a number of fellow students. Dr. Howard S. Bliss President of American University of Beirut interceded and won them a 24 hour reprieve before there were remanded to the custody of the gendarmerie. From thence he entered the service of the Sultan serving under Jemal Pasha in the Ottoman forth Army.

Djerejian, Edward Peter

• The Arab Union

The Kirkasharian Family

• The Kirkasharian Family

• Beatrice Kirkasharian

• Bedres Kirkasharian in Constantinople 1911

Kradjin, Arthur

• Arthur Kradjin

Kradjin, Kenneth

• Kenneth Kradjin

Mangurian Family

• The Mangurian Family of Hadjin Turkey 1897

Paraghamian, Mrs. Berge.

• Mrs. Berge Paraghamian Wedding Announcement

Philibosian, Steven

• Hadjin Protestant school circa 1903 with Mark Keshishian and Steven Philibosian

Copyright H.M. Keshishian 2006.
Last revised: May 15, 2009.