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*Today, the '''Armenian diaspora refers to communities of Armenians living outside of Armenia'''. The total Armenian population living worldwide is estimated to be 11,000,000. Of those, approximately 3 million currently live in Armenia, 130,000 in the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh and 120,000 in the region of Javakheti in '''neighboring Georgia'''. This leaves approximately 7,000,000 throughout the diaspora '''(with the largest populations in Russia, the United States, France, Argentina, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Canada, Ukraine, Greece, Cyprus, and Australia)'''.<ref>"Armenian diaspora", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_diaspora, accessed 14 June 2021.</ref> | *Today, the '''Armenian diaspora refers to communities of Armenians living outside of Armenia'''. The total Armenian population living worldwide is estimated to be 11,000,000. Of those, approximately 3 million currently live in Armenia, 130,000 in the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh and 120,000 in the region of Javakheti in '''neighboring Georgia'''. This leaves approximately 7,000,000 throughout the diaspora '''(with the largest populations in Russia, the United States, France, Argentina, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Canada, Ukraine, Greece, Cyprus, and Australia)'''.<ref>"Armenian diaspora", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_diaspora, accessed 14 June 2021.</ref> | ||
===Armenians in the United States=== | ===Armenians in the United States=== | ||
*The first major wave of Armenian immigration to the United States took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Thousands of Armenians settled in the United States '''following the Hamidian massacres of the mid-1890s, the Adana Massacre of 1909, and the Armenian genocide of 1915-1918 in the Ottoman Empire.''' | *The first major wave of Armenian immigration to the United States took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Thousands of Armenians settled in the United States '''following the Hamidian massacres of the mid-1890s, the Adana Massacre of 1909, and the Armenian genocide of 1915-1918 in the Ottoman Empire.''' | ||
*Since the 1950s many Armenians from the Middle East '''(especially from Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Egypt and Turkey)''' migrated to America as a result of political instability in the region. It accelerated in the late 1980s and has continued after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 due to socio-economic and political reasons. | *Since the 1950s many Armenians from the Middle East '''(especially from Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Egypt and Turkey)''' migrated to America as a result of political instability in the region. It accelerated in the late 1980s and has continued after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 due to socio-economic and political reasons. | ||
*The 2017 American Community Survey estimated that 485,970 Americans held full or partial Armenian ancestry. Various organizations and media criticize these numbers as an underestimate, '''proposing 800,000 to 1,500,000 Armenian Americans''' instead. | *The 2017 American Community Survey estimated that 485,970 Americans held full or partial Armenian ancestry. Various organizations and media criticize these numbers as an underestimate, '''proposing 800,000 to 1,500,000 Armenian Americans''' instead. | ||