Smbad Baroyan
Զոր. Սմբատ
Born	Smbad Baroyan (Սմբատ Բարոյան) 1864 Mush, Ottoman, Armenia
Died	1956 (aged 83–84) Yerevan, Armenia
Cause of death	Natural
Resting place	Surp Guyane
Nationality	Armenian
Other names	Maghluto
Education	Saint Karapet Monastery
Years active	1890s-1920
Known for	Fedayi Commander
Political party	Dashnaktsutyun

Smbad Baroyan, Maghluto, or "Zoravar Smbad, (Template:Lang-hy, Զորավար (1872–1956), was an Armenian feedayi commander during the Armenian national movement. He was known for his battles alongside with General Andranik Pasha.

Smbad was born in the city of Muş in 1872. As a child, his parents had sent him to Saint Karapet Monastery to receive a formal education. During his educational time at the monastery, the teachers would abuse many of the students, including Smbad. During this time, Smbad became acquainted with Armenian Question. He became inspired by the stories he heard of Armenian guerillas (feedayis) taking arms to defend their homeland. In the mid 1880s, Smbad alongside and his friend Levon decided to escape from school to join the feedayis. Once he joined, one of his first task was to move their bags and rifles because they did not initially trust him with a gun.

Smbad was present throughout most of the major battles that took place in the Van-Taron region in the 1890s. He fought alongside with other feedayis like Kevork Chavoush, Andranik Pasha, Keri, and Murad of Sebastia. During the Hamidian massacres of the Armenians in 1894-1896, Smbad joined Andranik Pasha in engaging in mounting armed attacks against the Ottoman army and Ottoman Kurdish raiders to defend Armenian citizens under persecution. Smbad was also present and took up arms during the Sasun Uprising. After the Sassoun resistance, Andranik, Kevork Chavush, Sebastatsi Murad, and Smbat with another 200 total fighters went to Van. The Feedayis took positions on Akdamar Island. The Turks discovered their whereabouts and sent a several ships with heavy weaponry to capture and kill them. They successfully defeated the Turkish attacks. In the aftermath, the feedayis decided to split. One group went to Sassoun, with Kevork Chavush. And the other group to the Caucuses via Persian boarder with Andranik Pasha. In 1907, Smbad was present during the Battle of Sulukh, in which Kevork Chavoush was killed. In 1908, he was involved in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution with Yeprem Khan. In 1914, during the outskirts of World War I, Smbad became General Andranik's feedayi commander in the Caucasus Campaign.

During the Armenian Genocide, Smbad was one of General Andranik's fedayi commanders. From 1915-1916, Smbad and Andranik were involved in the offensive battles in capturing Van. By 1916, Smbad and Andranik had extended the Armenian frontier and participated in the Battle of Bitlis against Mustafa Kemal. In 1917, the Bolshevik revolution had resulted with the withdrawal of Russian soldiers from the Armenian fronts. The Armenians began to form their own militias to guard against the abandoned frontier. The situation deteriorated with the counter-offensive of Turkish troops within the Armenian highland. Andranik and Smbad were force to withdraw to Mush-Sassoun plains, where they took up defensive positions. By mid-1917, Smbad was commander of the region of Khanous-Manaskert. By late 1917 and early 1918, the renewed Turkish offensive had pushed the Armenian soldiers back the frontier. Andranik and Smbad shifted military strategies and moved most of their soldiers to defend and hold the Erzurum line of position.

The result of the Turkish invasion of Armenia in 1918 forced Smbad and his soldiers to withdrew to Sardarapat. Alongside with General Andranik, Smbad was assigned to mobilize for the defense of the Armenian border. During this period, their militia was in consent disagreement with the newly declared Armenian government, which was trying to sign a peace treaty with the Turks (Treaty of Batum). Smbad and Andranik disagreed with the treaty because it would nullify Armenian claims to Western Armenia. After the Armenian government signed the Treaty of Batum, Smbad and Andranik went to Zangezour to fight against Azeri militias that were rebelling against the newly created government. In 1920, Turkish revolutionaries led by Kazim Karabekir initiated the second invasion of Armenia. Smbad was heavenly wounded on September 22, 1920. The successful invasion and occupation of most Armenia resulted in to the resignation of the government and the acceptance for the Sovietization of Armenia. The newly appointed Communist government began severe crackdowns on former Dashnak nationalist, politicians, and military personals. Many were arrested and executed. On February 13, 1921, Smabt went to Aragats-Talin region (still wounded), and succeeded in assisting a revolt against the Communist regime in Armenia. On February 17, Smbat and his army occupy Yerevan, succeeding in a coup and establishing Siman Vratsian as Prime Minister. They manage to free many persecuted victims of the communist. The aftermath revealed that in Yerevan prison a sum of 75 Armenian political and military prisoners were killed by Bolsheviks with axes and machetes. Amongst the dead were famous Armenian voluntary commander Hamazp and Gundapet Gabrieyel Gorkhanyan. The successful Soviet occupation of neighboring Georgia resulted in a fear of a straight out Soviet army occupation of Armenia. The provisional government and the Soviets came to an agreement that there will be no more political persecution if they were to disband and allow for the Sovietization. The provisional government disbanded with many of the coup remembers fleeing to other nations. On April 2, 1921, the Communist retook Yerevan.

Once the communist retook control of Yerevan, Smbad fled to Syunik, eventually crossing the boarder into Persia. From Persia he emigrated to United States where he resided in Fresno, California. Once in the United States he meets his former comrades, including General Andranik. In 1946, Smbad emigrated to Soviet Armenia via France, where he had been temporarily living. The remaining 10 years of his life was spent peacefully in Armenia where he worked in a Yerevan park. During this time he meet some of his volunteer army friends and with those who had been living abroad. Smbad died in 1956 peacefully in his house from natural causes. Smbad was buried in Surope Guyane monastery in Yerevan, Armenia.

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