ARMENIAN LIFE BEFORE 1915 / RESEARCH EDITION 0.4

Marash

City · Cilicia & Northern Syria

Present-day reference: Kahramanmaraş

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Population record

Not established

Armenian residents · Late 19th–early 20th century

Six Apostolic parish churches with attached schools. This school metric covers parish schools only; the Central School founded in 1880 and other institutions are additional.

Institutions and count definitions

Apostolic churches

6

19th–early 20th century

Six Apostolic churches, not an all-denomination inventory.

Parish education sites

6

19th-century parish provision

The account describes provision attached to six Apostolic churches. This is a historical subset, not a complete city school census; the Central School and other communities are additional.

These identified institutions do not exhaust Catholic, Evangelical, private and missionary provision.

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

Textiles

Weaving, dyeing and tailoring · Before 1915

The city’s Armenian artisans also worked in shoemaking, furniture-making, goldworking and milling. The source describes a varied workshop economy, not universal affluence.

Varty Keshishian · Marash — Trades (2011)

Silk

Mulberry cultivation and sericulture · Early 20th century

The study records growing local interest in silk production before the Armenian Genocide disrupted the skilled community.

Varty Keshishian · Marash — Trades (2011)

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