According to Donald Quataert , Arapgir in the 1880s was made up of 4,802 Muslim and 1,200 Armenian households , with a total population of about 29,000 persons . According to a METU study citing Nejat Göyünç , the city population was about 20,000 in 1911 , of which more than half of the population was Armenian Christians and the rest were Muslim . Differing sources present differing pictures for the respective shares of ethnicities within the weavers ' community . The Armenian population is reported to have suffered severely during the Hamidian massacres of 1895 , although , in this regard , Donald Quataert notes , with textile exports back to normal levels a year after the turmoil , in 1896 , either all weavers were Muslims after all , or few Armenian weavers were killed , displaced or disrupted during the troubles
Hamidian massacres
Hamidian massacres
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