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Jalaleddin (Ջալալեդդին, Arm.) was the first of Raffi's famous historical novels. It is set in Eastern Armenia at the beginning of the last Russo-Turkish War (1877) and was first published in May 1878, exactly one year after the events depicted. Its title is based on an historical figure, Sheikh Jalaleddin, a Kurdish chieftain who led his forces on a violent campaign against Armenian and Assyrian villages in the eastern part of Van province.