Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, 1914: A Geographic and Demographic Gazetteer

Sarkis Y. Karayan

Sarkis Y. Karayan
Gomidas Institute, 2018,
674 pp, maps, photos
ISBN 978-1-909382-42-8, pb.,
Price: UK£55.00 / US$70.00
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This book is the singlemost important English-language publication on the demographic profile of Armenians in the late Ottoman Empire. It is based on a plethora of published and archival records, especially Armenian language materials that have not been cited in English language academic works. Such records are discussed at some length and should be an eyeopener to readers. Karayan

also takes direct issue with some conventional works on the demography of the Ottoman Empire based on official Turkish archives. He makes a particularly poignant case study of his ancestral town of Aintab, showing the strength of the materials at his disposal and the weakness of official Turkish accounts for the city. Karayan lists over 4,000 Armenian inhabited towns and villages, replete with their old and new names, geographical coordinates, Armenian population as well as sources. According to Karayan, Ottoman Armenians numbered close to 2.5 million on the eve of WWI and the number who were lost in the Armenian Genocide was over 2 million people. His work includes a comprehensive index of village names for the perusal of readers.

CONTENTS

Foreword by Dr. Carla Garapedian (v)

From the Publishers (vii)

PART 1

Preface (3)
Introduction (5)
The Fate of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey, 1844–1927 (11)
The Armenian Patriarchate’s Figures, 1882-1912 (13)
Turkish Official Figures on Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey, 1828-1990 (23)
European Sources on the Population of the Ottoman Empire (35)
The Armenia Diaspora (41)
The Number of Armenian Lives Lost in Turkey and the Caucasus from Nov. 11th, 1918 to Dec. 31st, 1922 (53)
Summary of Armenian Population Figures from the Armenian Patriarchate (1882 and 1910), Ottoman Statistics (1914) and the Author’s Figures (1914) (65)
Final Calculation of Total Armenian Lives Lost During 1915–1918 (67)

PART 2
Map of Anatolia and Armenia ( cir. 1918 (70)
A Summary of the Administrative Division of the Ottoman Empire Inhabited by Armenians, 1914 (73)
How to Use This Gazetteer (including abbreviations and transliteration keys) (85)
Map of Ottoman Vilayets cir. 1914 (90)
Adana Vilayet (91)
Aleppo Vilayet (113)
Angora Vilayet (147)
Archipelago Islands Vilayet (165)
Bitlis Vilayet (169)
Brusa Vilayet (223)
Chatalja Sanjak (243)
Constantinople Vilayet (247)
Diarbekir Vilayet (265)
Edirne Vilayet (301)
Erzerum Vilayet (309)
Izmid Sanjak (353)
Kaleyi-Sultaniye Vilayet (365)
Kastamuni Vilayet (369)
Konya Vilayet (385)
Mamuret-ul-Aziz [Kharpert] Vilayet (395)
Sivas Vilayet (431)
Smyrna Vilayet (473)
Trebizond Vilayet (485)
Van Vilayet (523)
Unidentified Locations (563)

APPENDIX
1. The Average Size of Armenian Families Prior to 1914 (567)
2. Population Pyramid: Estimated Age Composition in Industrialized and Developing (Underdeveloped) Regions of the World, 1960s (571)
3. The Main Maps Used in This Study (573)

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Monographs (577)
Periodicals and Newspapers (593)

INDEX (595)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (665)

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