Editing Cilicia (section)

=== Modern era ===
[[File:Mersin, Cilicie, Syrie ( actuellement en Turquie ) - Corps d'armée s'apprêtant à recevoir le général Gouraud.jpg|thumb|175px|right|French taking over Cilicia as [[Henri Gouraud (general)|General Gouraud]] arrives Mersin]]

[[Armistice of Mudros]] that was signed on 30 October 1918 to end the [[World War I]], ceded the control of Cilicia to France. French Government sent four battalions of the [[French Armenian Legion|Armenian Legion]] in December to take over and oversee the repatriation of more than 170,000 Armenians to Cilicia. Returning Armenians negotiated with France to establish an autonomous ''State of Cilicia''. The Armenians formed the [[Armenian National Union]] which acted as an unofficial Cilician Armenian government composed of the four major political parties and three Armenian religious denominations.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.armenian-history.com/Nyuter/HISTORY/G_Moumdjian/Social-Political.htm |title=Cilicia Under French Mandate, 1918–1921 – Social and Political Life |last=Moumdjian |first=Garabed K. |work=armenian-history.com |accessdate=4 March 2010}}</ref> [[Mihran Damadian]], the chief negotiator for Armenians, signed the provisional ''Constitution of Cilicia'' in 1919 to bring new order to the region.<ref name="HrantAdana">{{cite web |url=https://hrantdink.org/attachments/article/1398/Adana_Raporu_new.pdf |title=Ermeni Kültür Varlıklarıyla Adana |publisher=HDV Yayınları |accessdate=12 March 2020}}</ref>

The French forces were spread too thinly in the region and, as they came under withering attacks by Muslim elements both opposed and [[Turkish national movement|loyal]] to [[Mustafa Kemal Pasha]], eventually reversed their policies in the region. A truce arranged on 28 May between the French and the Kemalists, led to the retreat of the French forces south of the Mersin-Osmaniye railroad.

[[File:Adana Vilayet Hall.jpg|thumb|175px|left|Cilicie palais de gouvernement]]

With the changing political environment and interests, the French further reversed their policy: The repatriation was halted, and the French ultimately abandoned all pretensions to Cilicia, which they had originally hoped to attach to their [[Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon|mandate over Syria]].<ref>Moumjian, Garabet K. "Cilicia Under French Administration: Armenian Aspirations, Turkish Resistance, and French Stratagems" in ''Armenian Cilicia'', pp. 457–489.</ref> [[Cilicia Peace Treaty]] was signed on 9 March 1921 between France and [[Grand National Assembly of Turkey|Turkish Grand National Assembly]]. The treaty did not achieve the intended goals and was replaced with the [[Treaty of Ankara (1921)|Treaty of Ankara]] that was signed on 20 October 1921. Based on the terms of the agreement, France recognized the end of the [[Cilicia War]], and French troops together with the remaining Armenian volunteers withdrew from the region in early January 1922.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/asmin/cilicia191823.html |title=Cilicia in the years 1918–1923 |publisher=Zum.de |access-date=2 October 2014}}</ref>

[[Maronites|Maronite]] community were re-settled in [[Lebanon]] by the French Administration. Later in 1922, roughly 10,000 Greeks were erforced to move to Greece by the policy of [[Greco-Turkish population exchange]].<ref name="HrantAdana" /><ref name="Hrant" /> Cilicia Armenians settled in [[Lebanon]], at the newly founded Armenian [[Bourj Hammoud]] town, just north-east of [[Beirut]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bourjhamoud.com/bourj-hamoud/about/ |title=Bourj Hammmoud |publisher=bourjhammoud.com |accessdate=29 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509123832/https://bourjhamoud.com/bourj-hamoud/about/ |archive-date=9 May 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> From 1920s, around 60 percent of the Cilician Armenians moved to [[Argentina]]. An informal census of 1941 revealed that, 70 percent of all the [[Armenian Argentine]]s in [[Buenos Aires]] had Adana origins.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.agos.com.tr/tr/yazi/16826/adanadan-buenos-airese-uzun-bir-yolculuk-arjantinde-ermeni-diasporasi |title=Adana'dan Buenos Aires'e uzun bir yolculuk |date=25 October 2016 |publisher=Agos Gazetesi |accessdate=29 January 2020}}</ref>