Demographic ·Early Modern ·Transregional ·Eurasia

Diaspora Settlements of the Armenian Trade Network

Merchant communities of the Armenian commercial diaspora across Eurasia.

674 records 1500–1900 CE 36.53° N · 49.38° E

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Fig. 1 Interactive distribution of the 674 geolocated records on a live carto-positron base · globe / flat projection · decimal degrees (WGS 84).

Abstract

A register of Armenian merchant settlements — churches, trading houses, and quarters — across the early-modern Eurasian trade network, from New Julfa to Amsterdam and Madras. Records carry first-attestation dates and an institutional anchor where documented.

Record

Theme	Demographic — linguistic & population
Region	Eurasia
Temporal range	1500–1900 CE
Geographic coverage	Transregional
Records	674 geolocated entities
Data source	Wikidata + archival gazetteer
Centroid	36.53° N · 49.38° E
Last revised	Mar 2026

Provenance & sources

Compiled from a curated spreadsheet corpus (n = 674) and reconciled against Wikidata entities. Geographic coordinates were verified against published gazetteers prior to publication.

· accessed 2026-03-12

SPARQL query

SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?coord ?inception WHERE { ?item wdt:P31 ?class . ?item wdt:P625 ?coord . OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P571 ?inception . } SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". } }

Recommended citation

Ortelius Editorial Board, ed. “Diaspora Settlements of the Armenian Trade Network” [dataset]. Ortelius: A Research Atlas of Thematic Cartography, Study AT-019. 2026. doi:10.5281/ortelius.019

DATASET CC BY 4.0 · ENRICHMENT CC0 · CARTOGRAPHY MIT

Data & reproducibility

The published dataset is distributed as CSV with a derived GeoJSON edition; coordinates are decimal degrees on the WGS 84 datum. DOI 10.5281/ortelius.019.

↓ data.csv ↓ data.geojson