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From antiquity, Armenian merchants have played a pivotal role in transcontinental trade across Eurasia.Positioned strategically along the vital trade route linking Europe and Asia, Armenia's geographical advantage has sustained its centrality of international trade in the economic life of Armenians until the close of the early modern period. [1]
This is a list of famous Armenian merchants. Individuals. Early modern period. Hovhannes Jughayetsi [1] ... Aris Alexanian, rug merchant in Hamilton, Ontario [2]
The brothers Petros (Petik) [a] and Sanos [b] were Armenian merchant magnates and Ottoman government tax-farmers from Old Julfa.They played a crucial role in the silk trade in Aleppo during the late 16th and first half of the 17th centuries, operating an extensive commercial network that reached the Dutch Republic and the Indian subcontinent and were important patrons of the Armenian community.
An eighteenth century painting of an officer, probably Gurgin Khan (seated) Khoja Gregory [a] (died August 1763), better known as Gurgin Khan, was an Armenian merchant and military leader who served Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal from 1760 to 1764, as minister of war and commander-in-chief.
Matenadaran, folio 1g, doc. 1288 is a Persian decree stored in the Catholicosate Archive of the Matenadaran in Armenia.Issued by the Iranian ruler Nader Shah (r. 1736–1747) at the request of Armenian merchants from Agulis (now in the Azerbaijan Republic) between December 1742 and January 1743, it is written in Shekasteh Nastaliq script.
The Armenian National Assembly also had the power to elect the Armenian Governor by a local Armenian legislative council. The councils later will be part of elections during Second Constitutional Era. Local Armenian legislative councils were composed of six Armenians elected by the Armenian National Assembly.
Khoja Wajid [a] (also spelled Wazid, Wazeed; d. 1759) was a wealthy Armenian merchant who played a prominent role in the economic and political life of Bengal in the 1740s and 50s. [3] He was the son of Khoja Mahmet Fazel, another notable Armenian merchant. [4]
The Villa Sceriman Widmann Rezzonico Foscari, owned by the Scerimans in the 18th century. The Sceriman family, also referred to as the Shahremanian, Shahremanean, Shahrimanian, Shehrimanian, Shariman, or Seriman [a] family, were a wealthy Safavid merchant family of Armenian ethnicity.