ARMENIAN LIFE BEFORE 1915 / RESEARCH EDITION 0.4
City · Constantinople & Marmara
Present-day reference: Istanbul
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Armenian residents · 1913–1914
The population follows the Patriarchate figure as reported by Ter Minassian. Institutional categories are presented separately rather than forced into a single church or school total.
Not established
The cited account reports 47 parishes. A parish is not a building count; no physical church total is inferred from it.
Not established
The abstract reports 42 schools alongside approximately twelve secondary institutions. Their categories and dates require full-text reconciliation; 42 is not displayed as a complete total.
A scholarly abstract reports 42 schools and approximately twelve secondary institutions. This edition retains that evidence here, without treating either as a reconciled total.
Forty-seven parishes are reported in the cited urban account. Parishes, churches, chapels and monasteries require separate inventories.
A selective directory, not a complete same-year census. Grouped and named entries must not be added together without checking overlap.
hospital · Armenian community · Pre-1915 institution
A named institution in Astoyan’s professional-life account; no founding date is asserted here.
Anahit Astoyan · Economic Activity of the Armenians of Constantinople (2024)Trading houses and European commercial connections · Late 19th–early 20th century
Astoyan documents Armenian trading houses connecting the capital with European manufacturers and Ottoman markets. Commercial representation, imports and distribution formed important parts of their influence.
Anahit Astoyan · Economic Activity of the Armenians of Constantinople (2024) · pp. 3–5, Armenian trading houses
Serving steamship and railway enterprises · 1912–1913 press references
Mkrtych Frenkyan’s commercial activity included supplying European steamship and railway companies. The study traces these connections through contemporary press references.
Anahit Astoyan · Economic Activity of the Armenians of Constantinople (2024) · p. 5, references 21 and 25
A documented position in the city’s pharmacy sector · 1914
Astoyan reports Armenian ownership of more than half of Constantinople’s 320 pharmacies. This is a specific sector claim, not a percentage of the entire economy.
Anahit Astoyan · Economic Activity of the Armenians of Constantinople (2024) · p. 17, reference 153
Shops, workshops and employment initiatives · Early 20th century; 1909 Labor House
Armenian women operated shops and tailoring workshops. The study also describes employment and training initiatives associated with the Labor House.
Anahit Astoyan · Economic Activity of the Armenians of Constantinople (2024) · p. 6, women’s economic activity
The earlier amira legacy · 18th–19th centuries
Armenian amira families held influential treasury, mint, manufacturing and building roles. This earlier institutional legacy is kept distinct from the city’s eve-of-1915 record.
Pascal Carmont · The Amiras: Lords of Ottoman Armenia (Gomidas Institute, 2012) · Publisher’s description
47 Armenian parishes · Turn-of-century account. Parishes, not a verified physical church-building count.
Author’s scholarly abstract, reproduced by DOAJ; full article DOI: 10.4000/remmm.2803. Reports 161,000 in the 1913–1914 Patriarchate survey, 47 parishes, 42 schools and approximately twelve secondary schools. Parishes are not a physical church-building count. The Ottoman registration figure is a separate, lower count, not an interchangeable census total.
Publisher’s account of Armenian commercial, industrial and professional elites in the capital during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This is historical economic context, not a 1914 inventory or a measure of the wealth of all Armenians.
Historical-Philological Journal 2024(2), pp. 3–25, DOI 10.54503/0135-0536-2024.2-3. Economic entries cite particular sections and retain their dates. The 1919 doctors figure is not used as a pre-1915 statistic.
Approximate city reference point; not a surveyed property or historical administrative boundary.
City, village, province and diocesan records have different scopes. Population and institution figures are not interchangeable or automatically additive.
Dataset 0.4.0 · Armenian Genocide Museum of Canada