Նախիջեւանի պատմութեան միքանի ժողովրդագրական տուեալների շուրջ (ԺԸ. դարի վերջին քառորդ-ԺԹ. դարասկիզբ)
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2016
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The article dwells on certain historical demographic facts related to Nakhichevan in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. It elaborates on the rise and fall of the city of Nakhichevan as a prosperous trade and transit hub in the region.
The author notes that this prosperity was partly related to the active presence of the Franciscan and Dominican fathers, whose missionaries had penetrated Eastern Armenia as early as the 14th century. These missionaries had converted large numbers of Orthodox Armenians to Catholicism. However, the local Armenian Catholics maintained the Armenian language in the liturgy conducted in their churches.
Due to the presence of Catholic missionaries, a number of Western European travellers came to the area, wrote about it and described life in Nakhichevan.
The author compares and contrasts the conflicting figures given by these travellers regarding the Catholic population of the city and notes that notwithstanding the ebb and flow of the Christian population of the area due to Ottoman versus Persian as well as Russian versus Persian wars, Armenians constituted the majority in Nakhichevan till the late-19th century.
The author notes that during the first quarter of the twentieth century the number of the Armenians dwindled significantly. It dropped to a tiny 10-12% in the 1960s due to anti-Armenian policies adopted by the Soviet Azerbaijani authorities. In 1989 the Nakhichevan Armenians constituted not more than 2% of the population of the Autonomous Republic of Nakhichevan.
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Մալոյեան, Ա., Մ., «Նախիջեւանի պատմութեան միքանի ժողովրդագրական տուեալների շուրջ (ԺԸ. դարի վերջին քառորդ-ԺԹ. դարասկիզբ)», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2016, Պէյրութ, էջ 111-124