New Julfa in Isfahan, Iran: it is still one of the oldest and largest Armenian quarters in the world.

This is a list of Armenian ethnic enclaves, containing cities, districts, and neighborhoods with predominantly Armenian population, or are associated with Armenian culture, either currently or historically.[a] Most numbers are estimates by various organizations and media, because many countries simply do not collect data on ethnicity.

Extant enclaves

San Lazzaro degli Armeni, located in the Venetian Lagoon, is home to an Armenian Catholic monastery.

Europe

Name Type Location Total Armenians % Ref
Alfortville[3] commune France Paris, France 45,000 7,000–9,000 15–20% [4]
Issy-les-Moulineaux[5][6] commune France Paris, France 63,000 6,000–6,500 10% [7]
San Lazzaro degli Armeni[8] island Italy Venice, Italy 17 ~100% [9]

Middle East

Syria

There are several Armenian-populated villages in Syria: including Aramo,[10][11] Al-Ghanimeh (Ghnemieh),[11][12] Kessab[b] (2,000–2,200)[14][15] in Latakia; and Yakubiyah in Idlib.[10] Aleppo has the Armenian neighborhoods of Al-Jdayde and Nor Kyough (Midan).[16][17]

Jordan

Armenians also resettled in al-Ashrafiya, Jordan from 1914, where they constructed an Armenian Apostolic Church and a school in 1962.[18]

other countries
Name Type Location Total Armenians % Ref
Anjar[19] town Lebanon Zahlé, Lebanon 2,400–4,000 ~100% [20][21]
Antelias city Lebanon Metn, Lebanon 16,000 3200–4,000 ~20% [3]
Armenian Quarter quarter Old City, Jerusalem[c] 2,424 500–1,000 21–41% [22][23][24]
Bourj Hammoud[25][26] city Lebanon Metn, Lebanon 150,000 110,000 73% [27][28]
New Julfa[29] quarter Iran Isfahan, Iran 10,000–12,000 — [30]
Zarneh (Boloran) village Iran Isfahan Province, Iran 61[31] 61 100% [32][33]
Vakıflı village Turkey Hatay, Turkey 135 ~100% [34]

Post-Soviet states

 Abkhazia (de facto)[d]

As of 2004, there were "around 50-60 Armenian villages" in Abkhazia.[35] According to the 2011 Abkhazian census, Armenians formed the majority of the population of the Sukhumi District (6,467 Armenians, 56.1% of the total 11,531), and plurality in Gulripshi District (8,430 Armenians or 46.8% of 18,032) and Gagra District (15,422 Armenians or 38.3% of 40,217).[36]

Javakheti (Javakhk) shown in red on the map of Georgia with Samtskhe-Javakheti provincial borders outlined.
 Georgia
Name Type Location Total Armenians % Ref
Avlabari (Havlabar)[37][38] neighborhood Tbilisi
Javakheti (Javakhk) province Samtskhe-Javakheti 95,280 90,373 94.8% [39]

Russia

The proportion of Armenians in the municipality of Sochi, Russia by settlements
Name Type Location Total Armenians % Ref
Adlersky City District raion Sochi, Krasnodar Krai 138,572 44,000–80,000 32%–58% [40][41][42]
Aykavan[43] village Crimea[e] 160 ~100% [44]
Edissiya[45] village Stavropol Krai 5,657 5,377 92.7% [46]
Gaikodzor village Anapsky District, Krasnodar Krai
Karabagly village Dagestan 723 ~400 56% [47][48]
Myasnikovsky District raion Rostov Oblast 39,631 22,108 56% [49]
Proletarsky raion (former Nakhichevan-on-Don)[50][51] city raion Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast 122,174 10,008 8% [52]
Tuapsinsky District raion Krasnodar Krai 62,400 13,700 22% [53]

United States

Name Type Location Total Armenians % Ref
Glendale[54] city California Los Angeles County, California 220,000 100,000 45% [55]
Little Armenia[56] neighborhood California Los Angeles, California 21,600 — [57]
Watertown[58][59] city Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts 33,000 2,700–8,000 8%–25% [60][61]

Extinct enclaves

Name Type Current location Period Armenian population & %(date) Ref
Armanitola neighborhood Bangladesh Dhaka, Bangladesh 18th century [62]
Ghala and Lilava
(Armanestān) 		neighborhood Iran Tabriz, Iran 19th century 6,000 (c. 1900) [63][64][65]
Ermenikend quarter Azerbaijan Nasimi raion, Baku, Azerbaijan 19th-20th centuries
Nərimanov raion city district Azerbaijan Baku, Azerbaijan mid-20th century 27.6–47.6% (1939–79) [66][67][68][69]
Gherla (Armenopolis) city Romania Cluj County, Romania 17th century 43.48% (1850) [70]
Kınalıada island Turkey Istanbul, Turkey 19th-20th centuries 35,000 (seasonal)
65–95% 		[71][72][73][74]
Kizlyar town Russia Dagestan, Russia late 19th century 3,523 (48%) (1897) [75]
Kumkapı[76][77] quarter Turkey Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey
Feodosia (Kaffa) city Russia Crimea (de facto) 15th century +65% (1470s) [78]
Nakhichevan-on-Don city Russia Rostov-on-Don, Russia 1778–1928 30–58.7% (1897) [79][80]
Old Armenian Town neighborhood United States Fresno, California, United States c. 1900—1950s [81]
Yettem settlement United States Tulare County, California, United States c. 1900—1920s 500 (100%) (1920) [82][83]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ This article only lists ethnic enclaves in the Armenian diaspora. Many sources describe Nagorno-Karabakh as an Armenian ethnic enclave,[1][2] which it was during most of its existence as the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (1923–91), when it did not border Soviet Armenia. Since the end of the 1988–94 war, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has been largely integrated with Armenia and the two today de facto function as a single entity. However, the NKR remains internationally unrecognized and is regarded by all UN members as de jure part of Azerbaijan.
  2. ^ The Armenian population of Kessab was forced out in March 2014, during the Syrian Civil War.[13]
  3. ^ The status of Jerusalem is disputed between Israel and the State of Palestine, but the Old City is de facto administered by Israel.
  4. ^ Abkhazia is de jure recognized as part of Georgia by most countries, however, it is de facto independent.
  5. ^ The Crimean Peninsula is disputed between Russia and Ukraine and is de facto part of Russia, but remains (for the most part) internationally recognized as de jure part of Ukraine. For more, see Political status of Crimea.

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