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International12 The Armenian Reporter | April 19, 2008
Yerevan
Lake
Lake Sevan
Yerevan Artsakh
T i g r is r i v e r
OTTOMAN EMPIRE
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
B L A C K S E A CASPIAN SEA
Baku
Beirut
Damascus
Tblisi
Aleppo
�e red circles represent the distribution of almost two million
Armenians inhabiting the Ottoman Empire on the eve of WWI. �ese
statistics are based on the census of the Armenian Patriarchate of
Constantinople, the only creditable census data we have to date.
See Raymond Kevorkian, Le génocide des arméniens, Paris: Odile
Jacob, .
The red circles represent the distribution of almost two million
Armenians inhabiting the Ottoman Empire on the eve of World War I.
These statistics are based on the census of the Armenian
Patriarchate of Constantinople, the only creditable census data we
have to date. See Raymond Kevorkian, Le génocide des arméniens,
Paris: Odile Jacob, .
ARMENIAN CHURCHES AND MONASTERIESIN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE,
The crosses and pikes represent the distribution of Armenian
churches and monasteries in the Ottoman Empire on the eve of World
War I. These numbers are based on the census of the Armenian
Patriarchate of Constantinople, the only creditable census data we
have to date. See Raymond Kevorkian, Le génocide des arméniens,
Paris: Odile Jacob, .
T i g r is r i v e r
OTTOMAN EMPIRE
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
B L A C K S E A CASPIAN SEA
Baku
Beirut
Damascus
Tblisi
Aleppo
Desert of
Der Zor
Cyprus
Euphrate
s R
iver
Lake Ourmia
Lake Van
PERSIA
RUSSIAN EMPIRE
Lake Sevan
Bitlis( + )
Moush( + )
Hakkiari( + )
Siirt( + )
Trebizond( + )
Shabin Karahissar
( + )
Erzinjan( + )
Erzeroum( + )
Sinope()
Amasia( + )
Caesarea( + )
Samsoun()
Sivas( + )
Malatia( + )
Sis( + ) Marash
( + )
Ourfa( + )
Arghana( + )
Diarbekir( + )
Harpoot( + )
Mardin()
Dersim( + )
Tokat( + )
Van(+)
Bayazid( + )
Gumush Hane( + )
Mersin()
Adana()
Ichili()
Djebelibereket( + )
Antioch( + )
Aintab()
Dardanelles()
Balikesir()
Adrianople()
Magnesia()
Smyrna()
Aidin()
Denizli()
Kutahia()
Broussa()
Ismit( + )
Biredjik()
Bolou()
Sparta()
Adalia()
Konia()
AfionKarahissar
()
Nigde()
Changheri()
Kirshehir()
Constantinople()Rodosto
()
Angora( + )
Yozghad(+)
Kastamonou()
Ineboli()
ArtsakhA R M E N I A
Lazistan()
The three maps on these pages are a graphic representation of
Western Armenian civilization as it existed in Asia Minor on the
eve of the Ar-menian Genocide, 1915–17.
The first map uses red dots to show the distribution of
Arme-nians before the Genocide. The red dot concept has been used
before, in a now-iconic map produced in 1920. In that map, it was
not clear whether the dots indicated the number of people killed at
each lo-cality, the number of people from each locality who were
killed, or the number of people who lived in each locality. The
dots did not fit any of those interpretations.
This map, prepared by historian Ara Sarafian of the Gomidas
In-stitute, does not show what hap-pened in 1915, but what – or
rather who – existed just before 1915.
The second and third maps show the distribution of Armenian
churches, monasteries, and schools in the same period.
More information is available from the Gomidas Institute at
www.gomidas.org or [email protected]. f
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Yerevan
Lake
Lake Sevan
Yerevan Artsakh
T i g r is r i v e r
OTTOMAN EMPIRE
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
B L A C K S E A CASPIAN SEA
Baku
Beirut
Damascus
Tblisi
Aleppo
�e red circles represent the distribution of almost two million
Armenians inhabiting the Ottoman Empire on the eve of WWI. �ese
statistics are based on the census of the Armenian Patriarchate of
Constantinople, the only creditable census data we have to date.
See Raymond Kevorkian, Le génocide des arméniens, Paris: Odile
Jacob, .
The red circles represent the distribution of almost two million
Armenians inhabiting the Ottoman Empire on the eve of World War I.
These statistics are based on the census of the Armenian
Patriarchate of Constantinople, the only creditable census data we
have to date. See Raymond Kevorkian, Le génocide des arméniens,
Paris: Odile Jacob, .
The books represent the distribution of Armenian schools in the
Ottoman Empire on the eve of World War I. These numbers are based
on the census of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, the
only creditable census data we have to date. See Raymond Kevorkian,
Le génocide des arméniens, Paris: Odile Jacob, .
