Editing History of Armenia (section)

===Russian Armenia===
{{Main|Russian Armenia}}
[[File:Armenian Oblast, 1828-1840.png|thumb|Map of the [[Armenian Oblast]] within the [[Russian Empire]]]]

In the aftermath of the [[Russo-Persian War, 1826–1828]], the parts of historic Armenia (also known as [[Eastern Armenia]]) under Persian control, centering on [[Yerevan]] and [[Lake Sevan]], were incorporated into [[Russia]] after Qajar Persia's forced ceding in 1828 per the [[Treaty of Turkmenchay]].<ref name="https">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KTq2BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA728|title=Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond ...|access-date=22 December 2014|isbn=9781598849486|last1=Dowling|first1=Timothy C.|date=2 December 2014|publisher=Abc-Clio }}</ref> Under Russian rule, the area corresponding approximately to modern-day Armenian territory was called "Province of Yerevan". The Armenian subjects of the [[Russian Empire]] lived in relative safety, compared to their Ottoman kin, albeit clashes with [[Azeris|Tatars]] and [[Kurds]] were frequent in the early 20th century.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} Even though Russian Armenians benefited from the advanced Russian culture, and greater access to European thought, and broader economic initiative, they were denied equal educational and administrative opportunities like many other racial and religious minorities.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hovannisian|first=Richard G|date=1971|title=Russian Armenia. A Century of Tsarist Rule|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41044266|journal=Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas|volume=19|issue=1|pages=31–48|jstor=41044266}}</ref>

The Treaty of Turkmenchay of 1828 had further stipulated the rights of the Russian tsar to resettle [[Iranian Armenians|Persian Armenians]] within the newly conquered Caucasus region, which had been taken over from [[Iran]]. Following the resettlement of Persian Armenians alone in the newly conquered Russian territories, significant demographic shifts were bound to take place. The Armenian-American historian [[George Bournoutian]] gives a summary of the ethnic make-up after those events:<ref>{{cite book|title=Eastern Armenia in the Last Decades of Persian Rule, 1807–1828|last=Bournoutian|first=George A.|year=1982|publisher=Undena Publications|location=Malibu|pages=xxii, 165}}<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed --></ref>

{{cquote|In the first quarter of the 19th century the Khanate of Erevan included most of Eastern Armenia and covered an area of approximately {{convert|7000|sqmi|km2|disp=sqbr}}. The land was mountainous and dry, the population of about 100,000 was roughly 80 percent Muslim (Persian, Azeri, Kurdish) and 20 percent Christian (Armenian).}}

After the incorporation of the [[Erivan Khanate]] into the Russian Empire, Muslim majority of the area gradually changed, at first the Armenians who were left captive were encouraged to return.<ref name="William Bayne Fisher p. 339">The Cambridge History of Iran by William Bayne Fisher, Peter Avery, Ilya Gershevitch, Gavin Hambly, Charles Melville, Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 339<!-- publishing info, ISSN/ISBN needed --></ref> As a result of which an estimated 57,000 Armenian refugees from Persia returned to the territory of the Erivan Khanate after 1828, while about 35,000 Muslims (Persians, Turkic groups, Kurds, Lezgis, etc.) out of a total population of over 100,000 left the region.<ref name="potier">{{cite book|title=Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia: A Legal Appraisal|last=Potier|first=Tim|year=2001|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|isbn=90-411-1477-7|page=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JL9N4F1SgyYC&pg=PA2}}</ref>