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Showing 2 of 2 matching publications (200 total) · catalogue updated 2026-07-22
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Հայոց ցեղասպանության հիմնական փուլի ընթացքում (1915–1916 թթ.) զոհված հայերի թվաքանակի հաշվումները (Calculations of the Armenian Death Toll during the Main Phase of the Armenian Genocide, 1915–1916: Sources, Data, and Methods, 1915–1923)

Tatoyan, Robert, 2025
Ցեղասպանագիտական հանդես / Journal of Genocide Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 8–45 (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation, Yerevan); ISSN 1829-3980; DOI 10.51442/jgs.0060

Reconstructs how the Armenian death toll was calculated between 1915 and 1923, during and immediately after the extermination campaign. Tatoyan shows the earliest estimates served political and humanitarian ends: publicizing the scale of the Ottoman government's crimes, trying to halt the persecutions, and organizing relief, and that after the war the question resurfaced in diplomatic negotiations over the Armenian Question, chiefly around reparations for human and material losses. Surveying the sources and their methods (Toynbee, Lepsius, the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, and estimates derived from them), he finds the most widely accepted contemporary figure for the main phase to be roughly one million: about 600,000 deaths in the 1915 deportations and massacres, and about 400,000 in 1916 in the Syrian and Mesopotamian camps from starvation, disease, and the killings that followed the camps' dissolution.

victim statisticsdemographyreparationsArmenian Patriarchate of Constantinoplesource criticism
ArmenianRead Հայոց ցեղասպանության հիմնական փուլի ընթացքում (1915–1916 թթ.) զոհված հայերի թվաքանակի հաշվումները (Calculations of the Armenian Death Toll during the Main Phase of the Armenian Genocide, 1915–1916: Sources, Data, and Methods, 1915–1923) (opens in a new tab)
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The Significance of the Persian War (572-591) in the Narratio de rebus Armeniae

Cowe, S. Peter, 1991
Le Muséon, Vol. 104, No. 3-4, pp. 265–276 (Peeters); DOI 10.2143/MUS.104.3.2006074

A study of how the Byzantine-Persian war of 572–591 functions within the Narratio de rebus Armeniae, a key Greek-language source of Armenian Chalcedonian provenance for the ecclesiastical history of Armenia and its relations with Byzantium.

Narratio de rebus ArmeniaeByzantine-Persian warsArmenian Chalcedonianschurch historiographylate antique Armenia
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