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Author Shapiro, Henry R., author.

Title The rise of the western Armenian diaspora in the early modern Ottoman Empire : from refugee crisis to renaissance / Henry R. Shapiro
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 324 pages): illustrations (black and white), maps
Series Non-Muslim contributions to Islamic civilisation
Non-Muslim contributions to Islamic civilisation
Contents Part I: Migration and Refugee Crisis -- 1. Armenians and the "Seventeenth-Century Crisis" in the Ottoman Empire -- 2. Kemah and the "Great Armenian Flight" -- 3. An Armenian Refugee Crisis in Ottoman Rodosto (Tekirdağ) -- Part II: Integration and Renaissance -- 4. Grigor Daranaḷts'i and the Crisis of Leadership and Infrastructure in the Early Seventeenth-Century Western Armenian Diaspora -- 5. Eremia K'eōmurchean and the Foundation of the Western Armenian Intellectual Tradition in Ottoman Istanbul -- 6. Eremia K'eōmurchean and the Establishment of an Armeno-Turkish Translation Movement in Ottoman Istanbul -- Conclusions: Legacies of the Great Armenian Flight
Summary "This book traces how Armenian migrants changed the demographic and cultural landscape of Istanbul and Western Anatolia in the course of the seventeenth century. During the centuries that followed, Ottoman Armenian merchants, financiers (sarrafs), authors, musicians, translators, printers and bureaucrats would play key roles in Ottoman trade, cultural life and even governance, that is, in most spheres of the empire's economic and cultural life. This book shows how that cosmopolitan world came into being. Using both Ottoman Turkish and little-known Armenian sources, Henry Shapiro provides the first systematic study of Armenian population movements that resulted in the cosmopolitan remaking of Istanbul. In the first part of the book, he documents the Great Armenian Flight, showing how the global crisis of the seventeenth century (war, climate change, famine) impacted the historical Armenian population centers of the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia and led to mass migrations and resettlement in Western Anatolia, Istanbul and Thrace. In the second part of the book, Shapiro links this history of migration and the refugee crisis with the development of intellectual and cultural life in Istanbul and Western Anatolia--the rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora." -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references and index
Subject Armenians -- Turkey -- History -- 17th century
Armenians -- Turkey -- Social conditions -- 17th century
Refugees -- Turkey -- History -- 17th century
Armenians -- Intellectual life
HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century
Armenians -- Intellectual life
Armenians
Armenians -- Social conditions
Emigration and immigration
Refugees
SUBJECT Turkey -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century
Subject Turkey
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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