ARMENIAN LIFE BEFORE 1915 / RESEARCH EDITION 0.4

Diyarbekir / Dikranagerd

City · Diyarbekir / Dikranagerd

Present-day reference: Diyarbakır

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Population record

14,100

Armenian residents · 1913

Four parochial city schools are the author’s reconstruction, not an all-denomination census. The 16,352 subdistrict population is deliberately excluded.

Institutions and count definitions

Churches

Complete total not established

1913

The school history identifies Saint Giragos and Saint Sarkis. A complete building inventory is not inferred from these two examples.

Inferred parochial schools

4

1913 report reconstruction

The author infers four city schools from a wider report. This is not a complete all-denomination school total.

Earlier accounts also describe Catholic and Protestant schools. Their different dates and classifications must remain separate from the four-school reconstruction.

The school history identifies Saint Giragos and Saint Sarkis. A complete building inventory is not inferred from these two examples.

Documented institutions and groups

A selective directory, not a complete same-year census. Grouped and named entries must not be added together without checking overlap.

Trades, industries and influence

Crafts

Merchants and skilled workshops · Before 1915

Armenian trades included weaving, tailoring, jewellery, carpentry, masonry, shoemaking and metalworking. The cited account identifies occupations rather than a total value or ownership percentage.

Houshamadyan · Diyarbekir — Religious Customs and community life (2020)

Sources and geographic context

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