The Armenian millet (Turkish: Ermeni milleti) was the Ottoman millet (autonomous ethnoreligious community) of the Armenian Apostolic Church. It initially included not just Armenians in the Ottoman Empire but members of other Oriental Orthodox and Nestorian churches including the Coptic Church, Chaldean Catholic Church, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, and the Assyrian Church of the East,[1] although most of these groups obtained their own millet in the nineteenth century.[2] Mehmet II separated them from the Greek Orthodox because of the disagreements that they had over orthodoxy. [3] The members of the millet were not only able to handle things autonomously, they had the legal status to bring a case to the Islamic courts.[4] The Armenian millet did not have the ability to hold authority over the many people they were supposed to, and the Armenian patriarch's power had no real authority in Istanbul being so far from Anatolia.[3]

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  1. ^ Suny, Ronald Grigor (2015). "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide. Princeton University Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-4008-6558-1.
  2. ^ Suny, Ronald Grigor (2015). "They can live in the desert but nowhere else" : a history of the Armenian genocide. Princeton. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-4008-6558-1. OCLC 903685759.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ a b Sharkey, Heather J. (2017). A history of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East. Cambridge, United Kingdom. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-521-76937-2. OCLC 995805601.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ ed., Greene, Molly. (2013). Minorities in the Ottoman Empire. Markus Wiener Publishers. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-55876-228-2. OCLC 1154080153. ((cite book)): |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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