| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 104 (2009)-700 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Baku | |
| Languages | |
| Armenian | |
| Religion | |
| Armenian Apostolic Church | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Armenians in Azerbaijan |
| Year | Total | Armenians % | ||
| 1851[1] | 7,431 | 405 | 5.5% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1886[2] | 86,611 | 24,490 | 28.3% | |
| 1897[3] | 111,904 | 19,099 | 17.1% | |
| 1926[4] | 347,390 | 69,544 | 20% | |
| 1939[2] | 808,690 | 118,703 | 14.7% | |
| 1959[2] | 987,228 | 170,074 | 17.2% | |
| 1970[2] | 1,265,515 | 207,464 | 16.4% | |
| 1979[2] | 1,533,235 | 215,807 | 14.1% | |
| 1989[2] | 1,794,874 | 179,950 | 10.0% | |
| 1999[5] | 1,788,854 | 378 | 0% | |
| 2009[6] | 2,045,815 | 104 | 0,005 | |
| 1939-1989 figures include data from the city of Baku proper and the Baku municipality (gorsovet). |
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Armenians once formed a sizable community in Baku, the current capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Though the date of their original settlement is unclear, Baku's Armenian population swelled during the 19th century, when it became a major center for oil production and offered other economic opportunities to enterprising investors and businessmen.
Their numbers remained strong into the 20th century, despite the turbulence of the Russian Revolutions of 1917, but almost all the Armenians fled the city between 1988 and January 1990.[7] By the beginning of January 1990, only 50,000 Armenians remained in Baku compared to a quarter million in 1988; most of these left after being targeted in a pogrom that occurred before the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the early stages of the first Nagorno-Karabakh War.[8]
- ^ (in Russian) Kavkazskii Kalendar na 1852g., pp. 305–307
- ^ a b c d e f Население Азербайджана (in Russian). Ethno-Caucasus. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
- ^ (in Russian) Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г.
- ^ (in Russian) ГОРОД БАКУ (1926 г.)
- ^ "Ethnic composition of Azerbaijan 1999". Pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- ^ "Ethnic composition of Azerbaijan 2009". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 7 April 1971. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- ^ "Bukva.mobi". Archived from the original on 16 November 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ^ Kaufman, Stuart J. (2001). Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War. New York: Cornell University Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-8014-8736-1.