Textiles
Loom weaving, printing and dyeing · Before 1915
Armenian workshops produced striped aladja cloth and hand-printed textiles for local and surrounding markets.
ARMENIAN LIFE BEFORE 1915 / RESEARCH EDITION 0.4
Ourfa / Urfa
City · Cilicia & Northern Syria
Present-day reference: Şanlıurfa
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Not established
Armenian residents · Late 19th–early 20th century
Armenian production and trading houses are documented in detail. Population and exhaustive institutional counts remain unentered until separately verified.
Institutions and count definitions
Churches
Complete total not establishedLate 19th–early 20th century
A church and a monastery are identified separately; these named sites do not establish a complete citywide inventory.
Schools
Complete total not establishedLate 19th–early 20th century
A church and a monastery are identified separately; these named sites do not establish a complete citywide inventory.
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.
- Holy Mother of God Church
church · Pre-1915
Robert Tatoyan · Ourfa — Churches (2016) - Saint Sarkis Monastery
monastery · Pre-1915
Robert Tatoyan · Ourfa — Churches (2016)
Trades, industries and influence
Commerce
Merchants and rural credit · Before 1915
The study names the Der Bedrosian and Imirzian trading houses and describes merchants supplying capital, animals and seed to rural producers. This is evidence of commercial networks, not an empire-wide finance percentage.
Sources and geographic context
- Vahe Tachjian · Ourfa — Trades (2016)
Documents Armenian textile production, crafts, named trading houses and commercial credit relationships before the Armenian Genocide. Neither a total business count nor a communal wealth valuation is claimed.
- Robert Tatoyan · Ourfa — Churches (2016)
Documents the Holy Mother of God Church and Saint Sarkis Monastery. Named places of worship are not treated as an exhaustive count.
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