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. [lower-alpha 1] Most numbers are estimates by various organizations and media, because many countries simply do not collect data on ethnicity.
| Name | Type | Location | Total | Armenians | % | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfortville [3] | commune |  Paris, France | 45,000 | 7,000–9,000 | 15–20% | [4] |
| Issy-les-Moulineaux [5] [6] | commune | Paris, France | 63,000 | 6,000–6,500 | 10% | [7] |
| San Lazzaro degli Armeni [8] | island |  Venice, Italy | 17 | ~100% | [9] | |
There are several Armenian-populated villages in Syria: including Aramo, [10] [11] Al-Ghanimeh (Ghnemieh), [11] [12] Kessab [lower-alpha 2] (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]
Armenians also resettled in al-Ashrafiya, Jordan from 1914, where they constructed an Armenian Apostolic Church and a school in 1962. [18]
| Name | Type | Location | Total | Armenians | % | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anjar [19] | town |  Zahlé, Lebanon | 2,400–4,000 | ~100% | [20] [21] | |
| Antelias | city | Metn, Lebanon | 16,000 | 3200–4,000 | ~20% | [3] |
| Armenian Quarter | quarter | Old City, Jerusalem [lower-alpha 3] | 2,424 | 500–1,000 | 21–41% | [22] [23] [24] |
| Bourj Hammoud [25] [26] | city | Metn, Lebanon | 150,000 | 110,000 | 73% | [27] [28] |
| New Julfa [29] | quarter |  Isfahan, Iran | 10,000–12,000 | — | [30] | |
| Zarneh (Boloran) | village | Isfahan Province, Iran | 61 [31] | 61 | 100% | [32] [33] |
| Vakıflı | village |  Hatay, Turkey | 135 | ~100% | [34] | |
Abkhazia (de facto) [lower-alpha 4] 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]
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] |
| 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 [lower-alpha 5] | 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] |
| Name | Type | Location | Total | Armenians | % | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glendale [54] | city |  Los Angeles County, California | 220,000 | 100,000 | 45% | [55] |
| Little Armenia [56] | neighborhood | Los Angeles, California | 21,600 | — | [57] | |
| Watertown [58] [59] | city |  Boston, Massachusetts | 33,000 | 2,700–8,000 | 8%–25% | [60] [61] |
| Name | Type | Current location | Period | Armenian population & %(date) | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armanitola | neighborhood |  Dhaka, Bangladesh | 18th century | [62] | |
| Ghala and Lilava (Armanestān) | neighborhood | Tabriz, Iran | 19th century | 6,000 (c. 1900) | [63] [64] [65] |
| Ermenikend | quarter |  Nasimi raion, Baku, Azerbaijan | 19th-20th centuries | ||
| Nərimanov raion | city district | Baku, Azerbaijan | mid-20th century | 27.6–47.6% (1939–79) | [66] [67] [68] [69] |
| Gherla (Armenopolis) | city |  Cluj County, Romania | 17th century | 43.48% (1850) | [70] |
| Kınalıada | island | Istanbul, Turkey | 19th-20th centuries | 35,000 (seasonal) 65–95% | [71] [72] [73] [74] |
| Kizlyar | town |  Dagestan, Russia | late 19th century | 3,523 (48%) (1897) | [75] |
| Kumkapı [76] [77] | quarter | Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey | |||
| Feodosia (Kaffa) | city | Crimea (de facto) | 15th century | +65% (1470s) | [78] |
| Nakhichevan-on-Don | city | Rostov-on-Don, Russia | 1778–1928 | 30–58.7% (1897) | [79] [80] |
| Old Armenian Town | neighborhood |  Fresno, California, United States | c. 1900—1950s | [81] | |
| Yettem | settlement | Tulare County, California, United States | c. 1900—1920s | 500 (100%) (1920) | [82] [83] |
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...an Armenian ethnic enclave (Nagorno-Karabakh)...
...Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave...
La ville d'Alfortville (Val-de-Marne), surnommée la « petite Arménie », est l'une des plus représentatives, avec 7 000 à 9 000 membres parmi plus de 45 000 habitants.
...the Armenian district of Issy-les-Moulineaux...
Today, just 12 vardapets (learned monks) and five novices remain...
...Kassab along with a few other Armenian villages — Aramo, Ghnemieh and Yacoubieh...
...the Armenian populated villages Aramo, Ghnemiye and Arpali...
The predominantly Armenian enclave of Kessab is now emptied of its Armenian population that has been there for hundreds of years, after rebel forces descended on the region from Turkey.
Almost all of the villages approximately 2,000 inhabitants had fled.
...mostly Armenian Christian village of Kassab (population 2,200)...
...the predominantly Armenian neighborhoods of Nor Kyough (Meedan)...
...the Armenian neighborhood of al-Midan...
...Anjar, an Armenian village in the Bekaa Valley.
The Armenian population had dwindled to about 4,000.
Nowadays, approximately 2400 people, 99.99% of them Armenians, live in Anjar.
Today, about 500 Armenians live in the Armenian Quarter.
Currently, about one thousand Armenians live in the Armenian Quarter.
{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)...in the Armenian neighborhood of Bourj Hammoud...
The Beirut neighborhood of Bourj Hamoud is a kind of miniature Armenia, with shop signs written in Armenian script and a dense, familial culture of working-class shops, homes and restaurants.
Of the estimated 180,000 Armenians in Lebanon, 110,000 are concentrated in the Bourj-Hammoud and Dora quarters of Greater Beirut.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)The city ... has a population of almost 150,000 hab.
Called New Julfa, this area remains the Armenian quarter of Isfahan to this day.
...еще 10-12 тысяч - в Исфагане (армяне называют его Новой Джугой)...
Գիւղում ամբողջութեամբ հայեր են բնակւում...
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)Vakifli, a village in Hatay province, is Turkey's sole remaining Armenian village. Home to just 135 people...
There are now around 50-60 Armenian villages in Abkhazia...
...Sochi's Adler district, home to about 80,000 ethnic Armenians...
Обращает на себя внимание резкий рост армянского населения в Сочи и, в частности, в Адлерском районе, где оно увеличилось на 17,5% и составило 31,8% к общему количеству жителей района.
...армянского поселения Эдиссия - одного из старейших армянских поселений на Юге России.
In time, Nor Nakhichevan was engulfed by the growth of Rostov, and it now amounts to a kind of Armenian quarter within the city...
...в 1929 году на территории Нахичевани был образован один из крупнейших в городе - Пролетарский район.
Among those cities is Glendale ... a center of the Armenian diaspora and home to one of the world's largest Armenian populations outside Armenia.
Zareh Sinanyan: "In Glendale, I was mayor for 220 thousand people (including 100 thousand Armenians)..."
Population: 21,600
...Watertown is one of the largest Armenian enclaves in the U.S...
... Boston ... Watertown, the Armenian enclave of the city...
The Armenian diocese of Azerbaijan has its center in Tabrīz (Arm. Dawrēz), the largest town in the province and the administrative capital of eastern Azerbaijan, which had a thriving Armenian community of about 6,000 souls at the turn of the century. Armenians were concentrated in the two neighborhoods of Ḡala (Arm. Berdaṭʿał) and Lilava, collectively called Armanestān [...]
Gherla Once a predominantly Armenian settlement called Armenopolis in the 17th century...
Kinali, one of the smaller islands, is a favorite among Istanbul's Armenians.
Tiny Kinali, once home to a bustling summertime Armenian community.
Its population was at least two-thirds Armenian ever since two Armenian worthies bought the island...
...on Kinali Island, a resort where almost 95 percent of the seasonal population of 35,000 were Armenians...
Kumkapı, since then, has been dominated by Armenians and Greeks. Over the centuries, the quarter's population retained this ethnic-linguistic characteristic—in fact, as late as the 1950s, Kumkapı was still known as an Armenian quarter. Starting in the 1960s, however, Kumkapı's Armenian population began to decrease, with people moving abroad to Europe or America or simply to other quarters of the city, like Samatya, Yeniköy or Bakırköy.
Istanbul's Armenian ghetto, the Kumkapi bordered the wholesale fish market and was populated almost entirely by Armenians.
В 30-е гг. XIV в. армянские колонии Крыма пополнились переселенцами из Ак-Сарая (выходцы из г. Ани), в 70-е гг. XV в. из 70- тысячного населения Кафы 2/3, т.е. свыше 46 тыс., составляли армяне.
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