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Armenian population by urban area

pre-genocide Armenian population in Ottoman cities, estimates

mid-20th century (1960?) Beirut Aleppo Istanbul Tehran

Ottoman edit

Urban area Total Armenians % Source
Constantinople (Istanbul) 909,978
1,125,000 		72,962
163,670 		8%
14.6% 		1914 Ottoman census
Patriarchate 1913
Sivas 60,000 30,000 50% [1]
Van 40,000 25,000 62.5% [2]
Malatya 40,000 20,000 50% [3]
Kayseri 65,000 20,000 31% Հայկական համառոտ հանրագիտարան, Հատոր 2, Երևան, 1995
Zeitun
Trabzon
Tokat
Adana 45,000 13,000 29% [1]
Erzurum 60,000 15,000 25% [4]
Smyrna
Alexandretta
Urfa (Edessia)
Arapgir 20,000 10,000 50% [5]
Marash
Amasya
Baberd
Mush
Erzincan
Bitlis
Harpoot 12,200 6,080 50% [6]
Hadjin
Ankara
Diyarbakır

https://web.archive.org/web/20210611070337/https://akunq.net/am/?p=9086 1915թ. Կեսարիան ուներ 60-70 հազար բնակչություն, որից 20 հազարը` հայ:

http://www.nayiri.com/imagedDictionaryBrowser.jsp?dictionaryId=61&dt=HY_HY&pageNumber=2161 1896-ին՝ 60,000 թուրք, հայ, հույն և այլազգի բնակիչ։ Հայերի թիվը կազմում էր 10-ից 20,000 մարդ։


other edit

Isfahan

Fresno (?)

Bulgaria

Cairo, Alexandria

Romania

Draft edit

  • ...that Constantinople had the largest Armenian population of any city in the world before the Armenian Genocide?


By the early 20th century, Constantinople (now Istanbul), the capital of the Ottoman Empire, was the city with the largest Armenian population in the world.[7][8][9]


City (current name) Country Province Armenians Total
Trabzon
15,000
    early 1900s[10]
Tokat (Yevdokia)
14,000
    early 1900s[11]
Smyrna
13,000
    early 1900s[12]
Alexandretta
4,500
15,000
30%
early 1900s[13]
Urfa
12,000
55,000
22%
early 1900s[14]
Marash
10,000
25,000
40%
early 1900s
Amasya
10,000
35,000
35%
early 1900s[15]
Baberd
10,000
30,000
33%
early 1900s[16]
Mush
9,000
20,000
45%
early 1900s[17]
Yerznka
7,500
23,000
33%
early 1900s[18]
Bitlis (1915–1918)
7,000
30,000
23%
early 1900s[1]
Palu
5,000
10,000
50%
early 1900s[19]
Hachn       early 1900s
Angora       early 1900s
Kastamonu       early 1900s
Diyarbakır       early 1900s
Dörtyol
12,300
    early 1900s

Bardizag

Ayas, Adana 2,000 5,000

References edit

Notes
Citations
  1. ^ a b Hakobyan 1987, p. 222.
  2. ^ Hakobyan 1987, p. 236.
  3. ^ Hakobyan 1987, p. 182.
  4. ^ Hakobyan 1987, p. 163.
  5. ^ Hakobyan 1987, p. 51.
  6. ^ Hakobyan 1987, p. 134.
  7. ^ Panossian, Razmik (2006). The Armenians: From Kings And Priests to Merchants And Commissars. London: Columbia University Press. p. 84. ISBN 9780231511339. Eventually Constantinople became the city with the largest number of Armenian inhabitants (200,000-300,000 by the nineteenth century).
  8. ^ Vartan Artinian, The Armenian Constitutional System in the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1863, 1988, p. 6
  9. ^ Hagop Barsoumian, The Eastern Question and the Tanzimat Era, 1997, p. 188 in Richard Hovannisian, The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume II: Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century, New York, 2004, pp. 175-201
  10. ^ Հայկական համառոտ հանրագիտարան, Հատոր 4, Երևան, 2003
  11. ^ Հայկական համառոտ հանրագիտարան, Հատոր 2, Երևան, 1995
  12. ^ Lewy, Guenter (2005). The Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey : a disputed genocide. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. p. 204. ISBN 9780874808490. About thirteen thousand Armenians lived in Smyrna (today's Izmir), and many of them belonged to the richest and most influential people in that city.
  13. ^ http://akunq.net/am/?p=1161
  14. ^ http://akunq.net/am/?p=1155
  15. ^ Hakobyan 1987, p. 36.
  16. ^ Hakobyan 1987, p. 82.
  17. ^ Hakobyan 1987, p. 200.
  18. ^ Hakobyan 1987, p. 122.
  19. ^ Hakobyan 1987, p. 88.
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