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PBachman
02-06-2012, 03:54 AM
Roustam Raza (French: Roustam Raza, (In Armenian: Ռուստամ Ռազա) Georgian: როსტომ რაზმაძე ) Rostom Razmadze, also known as Roustan or Rustam was Napoleon Bonaparte's famous mamluk bodyguard.[2] Roustam was born in Tbilisi, Georgia to Armenian parents.[3] At thirteen Roustan was kidnapped and sold as a slave in Cairo. The Turks gave him the name Idzhahia. The sheikh of Cairo presented him to General Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. Roustan served as a bodyguard of Napoleon until 1814, when the Roustan married Mademoiselle Douville in Dourdan, France and refused to follow the Emperor in his exile to Elba.[4][5][6]
On 7 December 1845, Roustam died in Dourdan.[7]

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Nairi
02-06-2012, 11:58 PM
Another case of Turks kidnapping Armenians long before the genocide.

GeistFaust
02-07-2012, 02:52 AM
Mtebid variant, perhaps a bit more Alpinized than on average.