page_title: Demographics of the Arab League
section_title: Armenians
hierarchical_section_title: Demographics of the Arab League / Arab League populations / Armenians
caption_attribution_description: Photograph shows a poor, widowed Armenian woman and her children, Makarid (on her back) and Nuvart (standing next to her). In 1899, after the murder of her husband in the aftermath of the Armenian Massacres of 1894-1896, the family walked from their home in the Geghi region to Kharpert (Harput), eastern Anatolia (Turkey) seeking help from missionaries. Photograph was published in Helping Hands Series Magazine (Armenian Relief Committee) in December 1900 and an image of Nuvart wearing the same clothes appears in the December 1899 issue of the same publication. (Source: http: http://www.groong.com/orig/ak-20100907.html) TITLE: Armenians CALL NUMBER: LC-B2- 4626-3[P&amp;P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-27081 (digital file from original negative) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 negative&#160;: glass&#160;; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1899 CREATOR: Bain News Service, publisher. NOTES: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain Temp. note: Batch six loaded. FORMAT: Glass negatives. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original neg.) ggbain 27081 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.27081 CONTROL #: ggb2006002495
context_page_description: The Arab League is a social, cultural and economic grouping of 22 Arab states in the Arabic speaking world. As of 2018, the combined population of all the Arab states was around 407-420 million people.
  The most populous Arab League member state is Egypt, the North African nation with a population of 98 million residents. Comoros, the Indian Ocean nation is the least populated, with around 832,322 inhabitants. The largest city is Cairo.
context_section_description: The Arab world has between 400,000 and 500,000 Armenians inhabiting its geographical area. Armenians are largely concentrated in countries such as Lebanon 150,000 - 250,000 and Syria 100,000 to 150,000 and to a lesser degree Egypt and Iraq, but Armenians can also be found in countries like Qatar and the UAE. These Armenians are economic migrants from Lebanon and Syria.
  Most Armenians are Christians mainly following the Orthodox Armenian Apostolic Church. The church has one of its two headquarters in Antelias, Lebanon, called The Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia (the other being in Armenia called Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin). There are also Armenian Catholics. The world headquarters of the Armenian Catholic Church is also located in Beirut, Lebanon (and historically in Bzoummar, Lebanon). There are also a minority Armenian Evangelical Protestants. The Middle East headquarters of the Armenian Evangelical Church is in Beirut called Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in the Near East.
caption: Armenian refugees after the Hamidian massacres. A lot of them settled in Syria, Lebanon and Egypt
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