[69] The total number of Armenians was estimated by some as follows:
2,900,000. In Turkey 1,500,000; in Russia 1,000,000; in Persia 150,000;
in Europe, America, and East Indies 250,000. But this is quite a low
estimate. (See p. 146.)
[70] Ecclesiastes 10:18. Prov. 19:13 and 27:15.
[71] Lynch, “Armenia, Travels and Studies,” Vol. I, p. 60.
[72] Wigram, “The Cradle of Mankind,” p. 237.
[73] Rawlinson, “Herodotus,” Book I, p. 194.
[74] Ezekiel 27:14.
[75] Milner, “The Turkish Empire,” p. 264. The date possibly is the
Armenian which begins 551, and which brings up to A.D. 1748. About
this time, two wealthy and influential Armenians, who were especially
connected with the government, were beheaded, and four others, who also
were holders of high places in the governmental affairs, were executed
in 1817.
[76] The Turkish government promulgated a decree, on August 12, 1916,
which revokes the Constitution of the Armenian community in Turkey,
and creates an ecclesiastical head for the administration of religious
matters with his seat in Jerusalem, thus abolishing the office of
Armenian patriarch in Constantinople.
[77] Encyclopedia Britannica, the 11th ed., under the article, “The
Armenian Language.”
[78] Van Lennep, “The Bible Lands,” p. 367.
[79] Lamartine, “Voyage en Orient,” Vol. II, p. 190.
[80] Greene, “The Armenian Crisis in Turkey,” p. 140.
[81] The Mukhitarists also have translated from the Greek, French and
English classics. The writer read Milton’s “Paradise Lost” first in
Armenian translated by the fathers of Mukhitar’s order.
[82] See Chapter X, pp. 122 and 123.