Dr. George Bournoutian's Myths

Dr. Bournoutian's myths about armenian and the caucasian history. But the professor forgets to mention certain details of Russian sirveys, such as:

"[a] number of Armenian historians, quoting the post-1830 figures, have
incorrectly estimated the number of Armenians
in Eastern Armenia in Persian times to have been between 30 to 50 percent of
the total population. In reality - based on the official figures of the
Russian survey following the conquest - the Armenians barely formed 20
percent of the population of Eastern Armenia, while the Muslims exceeded 80
percent. In any case, the Armenian
population at no time prior to the Russian takeover formed a majority in
Eastern Armenia. In fact, although the Kameral'noe Opisanie indicates the
existence of an Armenian majority in a few mahals of
Eastern Armenia, this is only after the emigration of over 35,000
Muslims from the region; thus there is no concrete evidence of there
being an Armenian majority in any of the districts during the Persian
administration." (George A. Bournoutian in "The Ethnic Composition and the
Socio-Economic
Condition of Eastern Armenia in the First Half of the Nineteenth
Century", in Ronald Suni "Transcaucasia, Nationalism and Social
Change, pp.77-79)

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