Movses Baghramian ( hy, Մովսես Բաղրամյան) was an 18th-century Armenian liberation movement leader.

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He was born in

Karabakh Karabakh ( az, Qarabağ ; hy, Ղարաբաղ, Ġarabaġ ) is a geographic region in present-day southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to the lowlands between the rivers Kura and ...

and lived in

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. In 1763 he arrived with Hovsep Emin in

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and participated in the organisation of an Armenian uprising against the Persian and Turkish invaders. From 1768, he lived in

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and became an active member of Shahamir Shahamirian's group, propaganding libertarian ideas. In 1773 he published his "Tetrak, vor kochvi hordorak" book, he was one of the authors of the first constitution for

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(project).

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