Because Armenia is the first country to make the Christian religion official, and they mean business with it.
BoysenberryThin6020 on
Because we don’t want to end up like London.
No-Reserve-9436 on
Because of ethnic cleansing after WWI (same happened in Azerbaijan to Armenians), and because the Armenian Genocide caused massive Armenian migration to Eastern Armenia, lowering the Muslim population comparatively. The war in the 90’s resulted in the remaining Muslims to leave
Swagster777 on
Current Armenia is just a small portion of what Armenia used to be. There used to be a lot more Armenians, living in western Armenia ( eastern Turkey )with Muslim neighbours. Until the genocide when they (Turks and Kurds ) killed their Christian neighbours.
Current Armenia is where they fought for independence and were able to gain freedom, that’s when most Turks left.
War in 90s with Azerbaijan after ussr collapsed is when Muslim Azeris left.
AdriaticLostOnceMore on
The leftovers of the sword don’t enjoy living with the sword.
hosso22 on
Armenia doesn’t even have enough Armenians.
indomnus on
Linguistically isolated, culturally unique (compared to the Middle East), series of unfortunate circumstances (including but not limited to the Armenian Genocide). We still have Yezidis in Armenia who are very well integrated and valuable members of society (also caused by Muslim insurgents). So you can say that Armenia is a safe haven for all who once suffered under Muslim rule, and this is coming from someone who is an atheist.Islam just doesn’t mix well with what we regard modern civilization.
surenk6 on
Armenia was christian before Islam existed.
__shallal__ on
Genocide
dushmanimm on
There were muslims in Armenia, tho they had either been killed or left due to unfortunate circumstances
NoEstablishment860 on
There were Muslims in Armenia, but they had been killed
If you wanna consider Hemshins in Turkey they’re muslim Armenians.
aintnokhshtho on
Garegin Njdeh did good things to gnchunis (boshas (aka gypsies)) and to the muslims 🪵🪓
Fast-Librarian-1918 on
Surrounded by Muslim countries?what is a Muslim country for you – if you consider Azerbaijan Muslim then you might be autistic
AlfredFonDude on
shows Armenian Historic lands in green and asks why there are so few muslims…
PossibleLanguage534 on
your coming from the pov that the region is muslim. It used to be christian (and iran zoroastian/pagan) until the arabs swept in and then most notably the turks. The locals were assimilated and their culture, religion, and customs either erased or assimilated.
I actually have an unusual opinion of feeling more pity than any kind of resentment towards turks. most of them are just native anatolians who got taken over by turks and turned into essentially serfs, and their descendants now carry the banner of the people who conquered their ancestors and forced them to kill their kin.
Terrible_Barber9005 on
Killed or driven away. This is the norm for the region.
Even Yerevan, Armenia’s capital, actually used to be the capital of a Muslim Turkic khanate.
I’m not making any statements beyond that it’s a reality that the lands of modern Armenia hosted a large Muslim population once upon a time.
mangopickled on
How come eastern Turkey has so few Christians?
oremfrien on
If we rewind the clock back to the Russian conquest of the region from the Turkic vassal states (of Qajar Persia) that existed in the area (including, but not limited to Erivan Khanate) in 1828 (with the Treaty of Turkmenchay), the local tax records from 1826 estimated the total population of the region to be around 110,000 people of whom around 20% were Armenian and roughly 80% were Muslim of some stripe (Turkish/Tatar, Kurdish, or Persian). Of course, we should make clear that Armenians were a historic majority in the region but had often been ethnically cleansed by Muslim rulers like Shah Abbas I in 1604. The Muslim supermajority was just the situation in 1828.)
The Russians wanted to have a loyal population south of the Caucasus to defend the position from the Persians. The Russians wagered (correctly until the 2020s) that creating an Armenian enclave there would allow the Russians a natural bridgehead and protective line, especially as the Cossacks were tied up with the Circassians in the Aul-Wars (and later Tsitsekun).
Since the Russians considered the Armenians to be more loyal to the Russians than the Azerbaijanis, the Russian government promoted the resettlement of Armenians in the former Erivan Khanate and specifically in Yerevan city. It’s estimated that around 35,000 Muslims left the region, likely because of the shift from Persian power to Russian power. And, conversely, 57,000 Armenians immigrated to the region. This meant that by 1832, the numbers of Armenians were roughly on par with the number of Muslims in the area. Russian encouraged immigration as well as the results of Ottoman-Russian Wars, led to many Armenians leaving their homes in both the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Persia to come to what is now Armenia.
This led, in the subsequent century to Armenians becoming the majority of Armenia again in 1897 for the first time since being forced out by Shah Abbas almost 300 years before. The number of Muslims remaining was small enough of a population that the mass migration of Armenians that had previously been deported elsewhere in Persia or came from the Ottoman Empire was enough to shift the percentages of the population. There was a total of 797,853 people of whom 64.0% (510,855) were Armenian, 30.1% were Turkish/Tatar (240,323), and 5.9% were some other (likely Muslim) ethnicity (46,675). Note that even the number of Turkish/Tatar population had increased from 1826 (around 80-90,000 people) to 1897 (240,323), but this increase was wholly swallowed by the growth of the Armenian population. Additionally, the Turkish/Tatar population slowly begins to call them Azerbaijanis.
When World War I and the Armenian Genocide occur, we see a further immigration of Armenians fleeing the genocide. However, Ottoman forces called the „Army of Islam“ followed the fleeing Armenians into the Caucasus. We also see large-scale massacres perpetratred in the South Caucasus by Azerbaijanis (with the help of the „Army of Islam“) against Armenians (like the September Days the Shusha Massacre) and we see massacres perpetrated by the Armenians against the Azerbaijanis (like Ozanian and Nzdeh’s destruction of Azerbaijani villages during the conquest of Syunik/Zangezur).
By 1922, when the Soviet Union had reintegrated both Armenia and Azerbaijan, the territory of Soviet Armenia had roughly 10% Azerbaijani population. This percentage slowly dropped during the Soviet period such that by 1989, Azerbaijanis constituted around 2.5% of the Armenian popularion.
As a result of the increasing instability in the region after the fall of the Soviet Union, most remaining Azerbaijanis in Armenia left for Russia, Azerbaijan, or somewhere else.
Infamous_Alps7359 on
Similar to Palestine – contrary to zionazi propaganda, majority of Palestinians are Christian despite being surrounded by muslim countries. In Armenia, influence of Russian orthodox church also plays significant role.
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Because Armenia is the first country to make the Christian religion official, and they mean business with it.
Because we don’t want to end up like London.
Because of ethnic cleansing after WWI (same happened in Azerbaijan to Armenians), and because the Armenian Genocide caused massive Armenian migration to Eastern Armenia, lowering the Muslim population comparatively. The war in the 90’s resulted in the remaining Muslims to leave
Current Armenia is just a small portion of what Armenia used to be. There used to be a lot more Armenians, living in western Armenia ( eastern Turkey )with Muslim neighbours. Until the genocide when they (Turks and Kurds ) killed their Christian neighbours.
Current Armenia is where they fought for independence and were able to gain freedom, that’s when most Turks left.
War in 90s with Azerbaijan after ussr collapsed is when Muslim Azeris left.
The leftovers of the sword don’t enjoy living with the sword.
Armenia doesn’t even have enough Armenians.
Linguistically isolated, culturally unique (compared to the Middle East), series of unfortunate circumstances (including but not limited to the Armenian Genocide). We still have Yezidis in Armenia who are very well integrated and valuable members of society (also caused by Muslim insurgents). So you can say that Armenia is a safe haven for all who once suffered under Muslim rule, and this is coming from someone who is an atheist.Islam just doesn’t mix well with what we regard modern civilization.
Armenia was christian before Islam existed.
Genocide
There were muslims in Armenia, tho they had either been killed or left due to unfortunate circumstances
There were Muslims in Armenia, but they had been killed
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khojaly_massacre
If you wanna consider Hemshins in Turkey they’re muslim Armenians.
Garegin Njdeh did good things to gnchunis (boshas (aka gypsies)) and to the muslims 🪵🪓
Surrounded by Muslim countries?what is a Muslim country for you – if you consider Azerbaijan Muslim then you might be autistic
shows Armenian Historic lands in green and asks why there are so few muslims…
your coming from the pov that the region is muslim. It used to be christian (and iran zoroastian/pagan) until the arabs swept in and then most notably the turks. The locals were assimilated and their culture, religion, and customs either erased or assimilated.
I actually have an unusual opinion of feeling more pity than any kind of resentment towards turks. most of them are just native anatolians who got taken over by turks and turned into essentially serfs, and their descendants now carry the banner of the people who conquered their ancestors and forced them to kill their kin.
Killed or driven away. This is the norm for the region.
Even Yerevan, Armenia’s capital, actually used to be the capital of a Muslim Turkic khanate.
I’m not making any statements beyond that it’s a reality that the lands of modern Armenia hosted a large Muslim population once upon a time.
How come eastern Turkey has so few Christians?
If we rewind the clock back to the Russian conquest of the region from the Turkic vassal states (of Qajar Persia) that existed in the area (including, but not limited to Erivan Khanate) in 1828 (with the Treaty of Turkmenchay), the local tax records from 1826 estimated the total population of the region to be around 110,000 people of whom around 20% were Armenian and roughly 80% were Muslim of some stripe (Turkish/Tatar, Kurdish, or Persian). Of course, we should make clear that Armenians were a historic majority in the region but had often been ethnically cleansed by Muslim rulers like Shah Abbas I in 1604. The Muslim supermajority was just the situation in 1828.)
The Russians wanted to have a loyal population south of the Caucasus to defend the position from the Persians. The Russians wagered (correctly until the 2020s) that creating an Armenian enclave there would allow the Russians a natural bridgehead and protective line, especially as the Cossacks were tied up with the Circassians in the Aul-Wars (and later Tsitsekun).
Since the Russians considered the Armenians to be more loyal to the Russians than the Azerbaijanis, the Russian government promoted the resettlement of Armenians in the former Erivan Khanate and specifically in Yerevan city. It’s estimated that around 35,000 Muslims left the region, likely because of the shift from Persian power to Russian power. And, conversely, 57,000 Armenians immigrated to the region. This meant that by 1832, the numbers of Armenians were roughly on par with the number of Muslims in the area. Russian encouraged immigration as well as the results of Ottoman-Russian Wars, led to many Armenians leaving their homes in both the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Persia to come to what is now Armenia.
This led, in the subsequent century to Armenians becoming the majority of Armenia again in 1897 for the first time since being forced out by Shah Abbas almost 300 years before. The number of Muslims remaining was small enough of a population that the mass migration of Armenians that had previously been deported elsewhere in Persia or came from the Ottoman Empire was enough to shift the percentages of the population. There was a total of 797,853 people of whom 64.0% (510,855) were Armenian, 30.1% were Turkish/Tatar (240,323), and 5.9% were some other (likely Muslim) ethnicity (46,675). Note that even the number of Turkish/Tatar population had increased from 1826 (around 80-90,000 people) to 1897 (240,323), but this increase was wholly swallowed by the growth of the Armenian population. Additionally, the Turkish/Tatar population slowly begins to call them Azerbaijanis.
When World War I and the Armenian Genocide occur, we see a further immigration of Armenians fleeing the genocide. However, Ottoman forces called the „Army of Islam“ followed the fleeing Armenians into the Caucasus. We also see large-scale massacres perpetratred in the South Caucasus by Azerbaijanis (with the help of the „Army of Islam“) against Armenians (like the September Days the Shusha Massacre) and we see massacres perpetrated by the Armenians against the Azerbaijanis (like Ozanian and Nzdeh’s destruction of Azerbaijani villages during the conquest of Syunik/Zangezur).
By 1922, when the Soviet Union had reintegrated both Armenia and Azerbaijan, the territory of Soviet Armenia had roughly 10% Azerbaijani population. This percentage slowly dropped during the Soviet period such that by 1989, Azerbaijanis constituted around 2.5% of the Armenian popularion.
As a result of the increasing instability in the region after the fall of the Soviet Union, most remaining Azerbaijanis in Armenia left for Russia, Azerbaijan, or somewhere else.
Similar to Palestine – contrary to zionazi propaganda, majority of Palestinians are Christian despite being surrounded by muslim countries. In Armenia, influence of Russian orthodox church also plays significant role.