Oh boy where is Francis Grandmaster I can not know any other words than POV pushing to discribe what you are doing WHERE DID I EVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT NAKHICHEVAN POPULATION IN 1830s do you see me ever contesting those statistics Do you even see me contesting 14th century material Besides Nakhichevan discribed there is NOT Nakhichevan with its current bordering Grandmaster don t get offended but up to now you have demonstrated that you have no clue of what you are talking about Taking Nakhichevan as a whole in its pick the population jumped to 150 000 it was its most important period after the 13th century it was replaced in 14th century it droped to about half of its prior population it lost its statue at 15th century it was taken over by Armenians from the vicinities of Van and after the desertion of Ani people moved there Julfa alone represented a significant portion of the entire population The closest to the Abbas period you cam is of over 200 years while I provided data which covered that period You are the one making up things which you can in no way backup Here let readd the materials I have provided For the next four centuries Armenians who had begun their dispersion after the fall of Ani and the Seljuk Turkish invasions in the eleventh century continued to emigrate In the meantime Persia Iran experienced a revival under the Shi i Safavids who became the adversaries of the Sunni Ottomans From 1501 until 1639 the two fought each other periodically in Armenia Armenians were uprooted during these wars and in 1604 some 250 000 Armenians were forcibly transferred by Shah Abbas to Iran By the seventeenth century the Armenians had become a minority in parts of their historic lands The merchants of Julfa in Nakhichevan were among those who were brought to Iran by Shah Abbas he moved them to a suburb of Isfahan where they built the New Julfa community The support of Abbas and subsequent shahs enabled the Armenians to expand Iran s trade with India China Russia and Western Europe These merchants helped to make the Persian Gulf an important trade center An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires by James S Olson Lee Brigance Pappas Nicholas C J Pappas p 44 Shah Abbas devastated his frontier areas which included parts of Armenia as a defensive measure and so displaced nearly all the population from it He settled some 13 000 families in the silk growing northern provinces of Gilan and Mazanderan bordering on the Caspian Source The Armenians and the East India Company in Persia in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries by R W Ferrier The Economic History Review New Series Vol 26 No 1 1973 p 39 Linda K Steinmann in her work Shah Abbas and the Royal Silk Trade 1599 1629 Vol 14 No 1 1987 pp 68 74 covers the evacuation of the Armenians and to a lesser extent elsewhere of Georgians but nowhere does she say anything about any evacuation of Tartars Ina Baghdiantz McCabe covers the evacuation in her work The Shah s Silk for Europe s Silver The Eurasian Trade of the Julfa Armenians in Safavid Iran and India 1530 1750 I don t see anything about Tartars being evacuated or an undiscriminate evacuation or any reference of an important Tartar population in Nakhichevan Josepho Barbaro while visiting the devastation reports destruction of Armenian towns and its desertion not Tartars Sir William Ouseley during his visit in 1812 has only discribed the destruction of the Armenian city during the evacuation In 1603 Shah Abbas the great Safavid ruler of Persia sent an expedition into Armenia in answer to the appeals of the inhabitants for assistance against the Turks The death of the Sultan Mahmud III in December 1603 and the succession of his son Ahmed a boy of twelve opened the way to an easy conquest in the course of which both retreating Turks and invading Persians plundered the Armenians The Persian victory was followed by a forced emigration of the population to the Shah s capital of Isfahan That dragon of hell Shah Abbas nourished from the beginning in the ways of the serpent saw with an eye of envy the prosperity of the Christians So Arakel of Tauriz the seventeenth century Armenian historian puts it and it was indeed the skill of new Armenia was left desolates A Seventeenth Century typological cycle of paintings in the Armenian cathedal at Julfa T S R Boase Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes Vol 13 No 3 4 pp 323 324 D M Lang writes that one of the two major reasons of the deportation was he desired to make use of the industrial and commercial talents of the Armenians Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Vol 32 No 3 1969 p 622 Julfa population was so i