1606-1609 թթ. Մեծ սովը Հայաստանում

Аннотация

After the Jelali Rebellion (1596-1610), the massive deportation of the Armenian population from Armenia into the central provinces of Iran by the Persian Shah Abbas I (1587-1629) in 1604, and the Ottoman-Persian wars in the early 17th century, a massive famine started in Armenia which negatively impacted on the demographic processes. A lot of Turkish and Armenian sources confirm that the famine covered all the Asian provinces of the Ottoman Empire and the north-eastern regions of the Safavid state, almost entirely including Armenia. The consequences of the starvation were lots of casualties and emigration impacting first of all the native Armenian population. After a careful historical-comparative analysis of the sources, we concluded that the massive famine wascharacteristic for the whole territory of Armenia in 1606-1609. Taking into consideration the scale of this calamity, it must be called the Great Famine in History of Armenia.
Therefore, the Great Famine negatively impacted on the population growth dynamics and the everyday life of the Armenian population.