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Topic:Ottoman census

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An Historical Geographic Information System for Ottoman Studies: The c. 1907 Ottoman Census and Armenian Settlement in Istanbul

Ohanian, Daniel · Başkurt, Z. Mehmet · Kabadayı, M. Erdem, 2020

Turcica. Revue d'études turques, Vol. 51, pp. 255–283 (Peeters); DOI 10.2143/TURC.51.0.3288390

Announces the publication of a partial transcription of the c. 1907 Ottoman census covering 24,000 Apostolic Armenian Istanbulites, together with a historical geographic information system, an interactive map, showing where those individuals lived. The authors first argue that an unidentified, microfilmed population register held in New York is the most substantial portion of this census currently available to researchers. They then introduce historical GIS as a tool for the digital humanities and describe the process of building one. The piece is simultaneously a source-critical study and a methodological guide for spatial history in Ottoman studies.

historical GIS Ottoman census Armenian settlement Istanbul digital humanities spatial history

English

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Collaboration in Ottoman Governance: The c. 1907 Imperial Census and the Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Istanbul

Ohanian, Daniel, 2017

Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 365–380 (Indiana University Press); DOI 10.2979/jottturstuass.4.2.07

Ohanian argues that critical and uncritical scholars alike tend to treat Ottoman Armenians as a cohesive group, and sets out to disrupt that habit. He first critiques the millet-system paradigm, then turns to historiographic debates over late Ottoman demographic data, a topic that has generated considerable tension between Ottoman studies and Armenian studies. Using the c. 1907 imperial census as a case study, he documents cooperation between the Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Istanbul and the Ottoman Ministry of the Interior. The example demonstrates the interdependence of the two bodies and shows that while some Armenians were victims or opponents of the late Ottoman state, others were deeply entrenched within it.

Ottoman census millet system Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul late Ottoman demography state-community relations

English

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The c. 1907 Ottoman Census and the Demography of Armenians in Southern İstanbul

Ohanian, Daniel, 2016

MA thesis, Department of History, İstanbul Bilgi University (advisor: M. Erdem Kabadayı); 98 pp.; handle 11411/1013

A demographic study of Apostolic Armenians in southern Istanbul based on the c. 1907 Ottoman imperial census, supervised by the Ottoman quantitative historian M. Erdem Kabadayı. It is the foundation of Ohanian's later census work: the research it contains was subsequently developed into his 2017 JOTSA article and his 2020 Turcica article on historical GIS.

Ottoman census Armenian demography Istanbul historical demography population registers

English

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