Armenians in Istanbul
Total population | |
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70,000-170,000[1] | |
Languages | |
Armenian, Turkish | |
Religion | |
Armenian Apostolic Church (Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople), Armenian Catholic Church |
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Year | TOTAL | Armenians | % | ||||||||||||||
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1478 [2] | 100,000 - 120,000 | 5,000-6,000 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
1844[3][4] | 891,000 | 222,000 | 24.9 | ||||||||||||||
1880s[4] | 250,000 | ||||||||||||||||
1885[3] | 873,565 | 156,861 | 17.9% | ||||||||||||||
1913 | 1,125,000 | 163,670[5] | 14.5% | ||||||||||||||
2011 | 13,483,052[6] | 50,000 - 70,000 | .3-.5% | ||||||||||||||
2015 | 13,483,052 | 170,000 | 1.1% |
Armenians in Istanbul (Armenian: Պոլսահայեր, romanized: Bolsahayer; Turkish: İstanbul Ermenileri) are a major part of the Turkish Armenian community and historically one of the largest ethnic minorities of Istanbul, Turkey. The city is often referred to as Bolis (Պոլիս) by Armenians, which is derived from the ending of the historical name of the city Constantinople.
Today, most estimations put the number of Armenian-Turkish Citizens in Istanbul at 50,000, 60,000 or 70,000.[7][8][9][10][11]
History[]
The Armenian community was made up of three religious denominations: Armenian Catholic, Armenian Protestant, and Armenian Apostolic, the Church of the vast majority of Armenians. The wealthy, Constantinople-based Amira class, a social elite whose members included the Duzians (Directors of the Imperial Mint), the Balyans (Chief Imperial Architects) and the Dadians (Superintendent of the Gunpowder Mills and manager of industrial factories).[12][13]
Institutions[]
At present, the Armenian community in Istanbul has 20 schools, 17 cultural and social organizations, three newspapers called Agos, Jamanak and Marmara, two sports clubs, named and Taksimspor,[14] and two health establishments as well as numerous religious foundations set up to support these activities.[15][16]
Getronagan Armenian High School is in Istanbul.[17]
Notable Armenians from Istanbul[]
The following is the list of prominent Armenians who either were born in Istanbul (Constantinople) or have worked there.
- Ottoman era (before 1923)
- Aram Andonian, journalist
- Arpiar Arpiarian, writer
- Balyan family, dynasty of architects
- Hagop Baronian, writer, satirist
- Nazaret Daghavarian, doctor
- Erukhan, writer
- Hagop Kazazian Pasha, minister of Finance
- Komitas Vardapet, musician
- Mkrtich Khrimian, religious leader, writer
- Yervant Odian, writer, satirist
- Ruben Sevak, writer
- Levon Shant, playwright, writer
- Mimar Sinan, architect
- Siamanto, writer
- Papken Siuni, political activist
- Bedros Tourian, poet
- Daniel Varujan, poet
- Rupen Zartarian, writer, educator
- Krikor Zohrab, statesman, author
- Republican era (1923–present)
- Arman Manukyan, professor, writer, economist
- Şahan Arzruni, concert pianist
- Hrant Dink, journalist, editor, columnist
- Agop Dilâçar, linguist of the Turkish language and co-founder of the Turkish Language Association
- Udi Hrant Kenkulian, Turkish classical musician
- Ara Güler, photographer
- Sevan Nisanyan, writer
See also[]
- Demographics of Istanbul
- Organization of Istanbul Armenians
- Armenians in Turkey
- Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople
References[]
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- ^ https://ipwr.net/global-voices/armenian-immigrants-hostage-turkish-politics[permanent dead link]
- ^ The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times: Foreign dominion to statehood : the fifteenth century to the twentieth century; Volume 2 of The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, Richard G. Hovannisian, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN 978-1-4039-6636-0
- ^ Jump up to: a b (in Armenian) Nicholas Adontz, «Հայկական հարցի լուծման շուրջ» [Around solution of the Armenian question], “Publishing house of Yerevan State University”, Yerevan, 1989, pp.87-88
- ^ Jump up to: a b (in Armenian) ՍՏԱՄԲՈՒԼԱՀԱՅ ՀԱՄԱՅՆՔ. ԱՆՑՅԱԼԸ, ՆԵՐԿԱՆ, ԽՆԴԻՐՆԵՐԸ (պատմական ակնարկ)
- ^ Justin McCarthy, THE POPULATION OF THE OTTOMAN ARMENIANS
- ^ Turkish Statistical Institute: Population of Town Centers and Provinces in Turkey Archived July 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ AZAD-HYE. "Azad-Hye Middle East Armenian Portal (Turkish Armenians hope for new era)". www.azad-hye.net. Archived from the original on 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
- ^ Foreign Ministry: 89,000 minorities live in Turkey Today's Zaman
- ^ "Armenian in Istanbul: Diaspora in Turkey welcomes the setting of relations and waits more steps from both countries - News - ArmeniaNow.com". armenianow.com.
- ^ The Armenian Church Archived June 14, 2002, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Edmund Herzig, Marina Kurkchiyan, The Armenians: past and present in the making of national identity, 2005, p. 133
- ^ Barsoumian, Hagop (1982), "The Dual Role of the Armenian Amira Class within the Ottoman Government and the Armenian Millet (1750–1850)", in Braude, Benjamin; Lewis, Bernard (eds.), Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Functioning of a Plural Society, I, New York: Holmes & Meier
- ^ Barsoumian, Hagop (1997), "The Eastern Question and the Tanzimat Era", in Hovannisian, Richard G (ed.), The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times, II: Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century, New York: St. Martin's, pp. 175–201, ISBN 0-312-10168-6
- ^ Hrant Dink's club Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Ana Sayfa - T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı". www.kultur.gov.tr.
- ^ AFP news agency (Director). Discreet but proud: The Armenians of Istanbul. Event occurs at 10 seconds. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
- ^ "Getronagan Armenian High School". Getronagan Armenian High School: Official Website. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
Further reading[]
- Hovannisian, Richard G. (ed.), Armenian Constantinople. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2010.
- Şekeryan, Ari (2020). "The transformation of the political position of the Armenian community in Istanbul vis-à-vis the declaration of the Republic of Turkey". Turkish Studies. 21 (2): 297–323. doi:10.1080/14683849.2019.1604137. S2CID 151025314.
- Tchilingirian, Hratch, "The 'Other' Citizens: Armenians in Turkey between Isolation and (dis)Integration," Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies 25 (2017), pp. 156–84.
- Armenians in Istanbul
- People from Istanbul
- Armenian diaspora
- Armenian diaspora in the Middle East
- Christian communities
- Ethnic groups in Turkey
- Turkish people of Armenian descent