Armenian Diaspora
There has existed a Armenian Diaspora for several centuries, initially of the colonies of tradesmen as in India. Following the Moslem invasions, many Armenian Christian was exiled, for example in the Crimea, and in the République polono-Lithuanian, on the old territory of which there remains of small Armenian minorities, in Poland and Romania in particular, to which new waves were added later on. The Order mekhitarist date also of this time, installed in 1715 with Venice and for a long time principal Armenian cultural hearth.
In the opposite direction, Armenians were invited to settle in Iran by one of its emperors to develop the trade to with it. It would still remain between: 100000 and: 200000 Armenian of Iran, which lay out of two reserved seats at the Iranian Parliament.
But the major part of this diaspora is made up of the survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915 who after being off-set and being dispossessed of their grounds tried to find refuge throughout the world: approximately: 1.5 million in Russia and ex- Soviet Union: 800000 in North America: 600000 with the the Middle East: 600000 in the European Union and: 150000 in Latin America. (estimative figures)
New waves of Armenian migrations towards Europe, and especially towards the Canada and the the United States, occurred after the advent of the dictatorships nassérienne in Egypt in 1952 and baassist in Syria in 1963, during the civil war with the Lebanon (1975 - 1989), after the Islamic revolution in Iran (1979), and after the end of the Soviet Union (1991).
The most important areas of the Armenian diaspora in the European Union are in France: the Ile-de-France (Alfortville, Issy-les-Moulineaux), Marseilles and its surroundings and the area the Rhone-Alps (Lyon, Valence, Décines).
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