Armenians in Tbilisi

Armenians in Tbilisi
Total population
55,000
Regions with significant populations
Tbilisi
Languages
Armenian
Religion
Armenian Apostolic Church
Related ethnic groups
Armenians in Georgia
View of Tiflis by a prominent Russian-Armenian artist Ivan Aivazovsky, 1868
Armenians in Tbilisi by years
Year TOTAL Armenians %
1801-3[1][2] 20,000 14,860 74.3%
1864/65 winter[3] 60,085 28,404 47.3%
1864/65 summer[3] 71,051 31,180 43.9%
1876[4] 104,024 37,610 36.1%
1897[5] 159,590 41,151 36.4%
1916[6] 346,766 149,294 43%
1926[7] 294,044 100,148 34.1%
1939[7] 519,220 137,331 26.4%
1959[7] 694,664 149,258 21.5%
1970[7] 889,020 150,205 16.9%
1979[7] 1,052,734 152,767 14.5%
2002 [8] 1,081,679 82,586 7.6%
2014[9] 1,108,717 53,409 4.8%

The Armenians have historically been one of the main ethnic groups in the city of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Armenians are the largest ethnic minority in Tbilisi at 4.8% of the population. Armenians migrated to the Georgian lands in the Middle Ages, during the Muslim rule of Armenia. They formed the single largest group of city's population in the 19th century. Official Georgian statistics of 2014 put the number of Armenians in Tbilisi at 53,409 people.[10]

Tbilisi or Tiflis (as most Armenians call it) was the center of cultural life of Armenians in the Russian Empire from early 19th century to early 20th century.

  1. ^ Ronald Grigor Suny (1994). The making of the Georgian nation. Indiana University Press. pp. 116–. ISBN 978-0-253-20915-3. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
  2. ^ "in 1803 it was considered up to 2700 houses in Tiflis from which more than 2500 belonged to Armenians. Thus, the capital made then quite the property of Armenians". (the guidebook across Caucasus of Russian geographer Vladikin, М.Владыкин, "Путеводитель и собеседник в путешествии по Кавказу", 1885 год, с.300.
  3. ^ a b (in Russian) Тифлис // Географическо-статистический словарь Российской империи.St. Petersburg, 1885, p. 133 (Note: this is a 'one-day census' of unknown scope and methodology).
  4. ^ Ronald Grigor Suny (1994). The making of the Georgian nation. Indiana University Press. p. 368. ISBN 978-0-253-20915-3. Retrieved 29 December 2011. (one-day census of Tiflis)
  5. ^ (in Russian) Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г.. Изд. Центр. стат. комитета МВД: Тифлисская губерния. — St. Petersburg, 1905, pp. 74—75.(Note: the census did not contain a question on ethnicity, which was deduced from data on mother tongue, social estate and occupation)[1]
  6. ^ Caucasian Calendar, 1916. pp. 206-209
  7. ^ a b c d e (in Russian) Ethno-Caucasus, население Кавказа, республика Грузия, население Грузии
  8. ^ Ethnic groups by major administrative-territorial units
  9. ^ Total population by regions and ethnicity Archived 2021-01-22 at the Wayback Machine census.ge
  10. ^ ETHNIC GROUPS BY MAJOR ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL UNITS Archived August 31, 2006, at the Wayback Machine Statistics Georgia