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*By the year 2000, there were 7,580,000 Armenians living abroad in total. | *By the year 2000, there were 7,580,000 Armenians living abroad in total. | ||
*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 Lebanon=== | |||
*There has been an Armenian presence in Lebanon for centuries. According to Minority Rights Group International, there are 156,000 Armenians in Lebanon, around 4% of the population. The Armenian presence in Lebanon during the Ottoman period was minimal; however, there was a large influx of Armenians after the Armenian genocide of 1915. | |||
*Many Armenians inhabited the area of '''Karantina (literally "Quarantine"''', a port-side district in the Lebanese capital of Beirut). Later on, a thriving Armenian community was formed in the neighbouring district of '''Bourj Hammoud.''' | |||
*In 1939, after the French ceded the Syrian territory of Alexandretta to Turkey, Armenians and other Christians from the area moved to the '''Bekaa Valley'''. The Armenians were grouped in '''Anjar''', where a community exists to this day. Some of these Armenian refugees had been settled by the French mandate authorities in camps in the South of Lebanon: El Buss and Rashidieh camps in Tyre would later make way for Palestinian refugees.<ref>"Armenians in Lebanon", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenians_in_Lebanon, accessed 15 June 2021.</ref> | |||
===Armenians in Syria=== | |||
*Syria and the surrounding areas have often served as a refuge for Armenians who fled from wars and persecutions such as the Armenian genocide. However, there has been an Armenian presence in the region since the Byzantine era. | |||
*According to the Ministry of Diaspora of Armenia, the estimated number of Armenians in Syria is 100,000, with more than 60,000 of them centralized in Aleppo. | |||
*Aleppo's large Christian population swelled with the influx of Armenian and Assyrian Christian refugees during the early 20th-century and after the Armenian genocide and Assyrian genocide of 1915. | |||
*The second period of Armenian flow towards Aleppo was marked by the withdrawal of the French troops from Cilicia in 1923. That wave brought more than 40,000 Armenian refugees to Aleppo between 1923 and 1925, and the population of the city skyrocketed up to 210,000 by the end of 1925, with Armenians forming more than 25% of the population. | |||
*Armenians formed more than half of the Christian community in Aleppo until 1947, when many groups of them left for Soviet Armenia to take advantage of the Armenian Repatriation Process (1946–1967).<ref>"Arnmenians in Syria", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenians_in_Syria, accessed 15 June 2021.</ref> | |||
===Armenians in Turkey=== | |||
*Armenians in Turkey, one of the indigenous peoples of Turkey, have an estimated population of 50,000 to 70,000, down from more than 1 million to 2 million Armenians in the year 1914. Today, the overwhelming majority of Turkish Armenians are concentrated in Istanbul. Until the Armenian genocide of 1915, most of the Armenian population of Turkey (then the Ottoman Empire) lived in the eastern parts of the country that Armenians call Western Armenia (roughly corresponding to the modern Eastern Anatolia Region). | |||
*Starting in the late 19th century, political instability, dire economic conditions, and continuing ethnic tensions prompted the emigration of as many as 100,000 Armenians to Europe, the Americas and the Middle East. This massive exodus from the Ottoman Empire is what started the modern Armenian diaspora worldwide. | |||
*There was conflict between Armenians and Turks between 1892 and 1915. The Armenian genocide followed in 1915–1916 until 1918, during which the Ottoman government of the time ordered the deportation and killing of more than 1 million Armenians. These measures affected an estimated 75–80% of all the Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Many died directly through Ottoman massacres, while others died as a result of dehydration, disease, and starvation during the death marches and in the Syrian Desert, and even more due to Kurdish raids on fleeing refugees during the death marches. | |||
*As for the remaining Armenians in the east, they found refuge by 1917–1918 in the Caucasus and within the areas controlled by the newly established Democratic Republic of Armenia. They '''never returned to their original homes in today's Eastern Turkey''' (composed of six vilayets, Erzurum, Van, Bitlis, Diyarbakır, Mamuretülaziz, and Sivas). | |||
*Most of the Armenian survivors from Cilicia and the southernmost areas with Armenians like Diyarbakır ended up in '''northern Syria and the Middle East.'''<ref>"Armenians in Turkey", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenians_in_Turkey#History, accessed 15 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.''' | ||
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*As of 2003 more than 8,000 Armenian Americans lived in '''Washington, DC.''' | *As of 2003 more than 8,000 Armenian Americans lived in '''Washington, DC.''' | ||
*Since the turn of the century there been a trend towards an increase in number of Armenians living outside of traditional settlement areas. For instance, the number of Armenians in '''Nevada''' increased from 2,880 in 2000 to 5,845 in 2010, '''Florida''' from 9,226 to 15,856, and '''Texas''' from 4,941 to 14,459. <ref>"Armenian Americans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Americans#Northeast, accessed 15 June 2021.</ref> | *Since the turn of the century there been a trend towards an increase in number of Armenians living outside of traditional settlement areas. For instance, the number of Armenians in '''Nevada''' increased from 2,880 in 2000 to 5,845 in 2010, '''Florida''' from 9,226 to 15,856, and '''Texas''' from 4,941 to 14,459. <ref>"Armenian Americans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Americans#Northeast, accessed 15 June 2021.</ref> | ||
==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||
*[https://www.worldcat.org/title/armenian-immigrants-boston-1891-1901-new-york-1880-1897/oclc/36095837&referer=brief_results Armenian immigrants : Boston 1891-1901, New York 1880-1897] | *[https://www.worldcat.org/title/armenian-immigrants-boston-1891-1901-new-york-1880-1897/oclc/36095837&referer=brief_results Armenian immigrants : Boston 1891-1901, New York 1880-1897] | ||