Armenian education in the Ottoman Empire

Beginning with the 1863 education has been offered to the whole people, and so far as funds permit is absolutely free for all. All Armenian education is under the direction of lay committees. During this period in Russian Armenia the association of the schools with the Church is rather closer, but the same principle obtains. This became a problem for Russian administration, which was peaked during 1897, Tsar Nicholas appointed the Armenophobic Grigory Sergeyevich Golitsin as governor of Transcaucasia, and Armenian schools, cultural associations, newspapers and libraries were closed.

The Armenian charitable works, hospitals, and provident institutions we were organized along the explained perspective. The Armenians, in addition to paying taxes to the State, have voluntarily imposed extra burdens on themselves in order to support such philanthropic agencies. The taxes to the State did not have direct return to Armenians in such cases.

The education and philanthropic agencies made the Armenians most educated and rich section of the Ottoman population.

There existed over 1,996 Armenian schools with 173,022 pupils; of these 1,251 schools with over 76,548 pupils were on the territories of Western Armenia before World War I.

The following table is the list of Armenian schools in the Ottoman Empire gives the number and statistics of Armenian schools for each geographical district in the Ottoman Empire in 1912.

Geographical district	Schools	Boys	Girls	Teachers
Siirt (Sghert)	3	163	84	11
Amasya and Merzifon (Marsofan)	9	1,524	814	54
Şebinkarahisar (Shabin-Karahisar)	27	2,040	105	42
Erzurum (Karin)	27	1,956	1,178	85
Kiğı	27	1,336	367	43
Bayburt (Baberd)	9	645	199	32
Diyarbakır (Amida)	4	690	324	27
Elâzığ (Kharpert)	27	2,058	496	58
Kemaliye (formerly Eğin, Akn)	4	541	215	22
Çemişgezek (Chmshkatsag)	12	456	272	15
Arapgir (Arabkir)	18	713	223	25
Peri (formerly Çarsancak)	12	617	189	18
Şanlıurfa (Edessa)	8	1,091	571	26
Gürün (Kyurin)	12	736	78	20
Darende	2	260	70	5
Divriği (Tevrik)	10	757	100	20
Sivas (Sebastia)	46	4,072	549	73
Bitlis (Baghesh)	12	571	63	20
Erzincan (Yerznka)	22	1,389	475	63
Kemah (Kamakh)	13	646	28	16
Doğubeyazıt (Daroynk)	6	338	54	13
Muş (Mush)	23	1,034	284	35
Van	21	1,323	554	59
Lim and Ktuts Islands	3	203	56	6
Akhtamar Island	32	1,106	132	36
Tercan (Derjan)	12	485	10	12
İspir (Sper) and Yusufeli (Kiskim)	3	80	-	3
Pasinler (Bassen)	7	315	-	7
Hınıs (Khnus)	8	352	15	12
Silvan (Tigranakert)	2	180	-	5
Palu (Balu)	8	505	50	15
Malatya	9	872	230	19
Six vilayets	438	29,054	7,785	897
Antep (Gaziantep)	9	898	708	58
Hatay (Antioch, Antakya)	10	440	47	10
Aleppo (Halep)	2	438	249	18
Saimbeyli (Hadjin)	4	508	69	12
Süleymanlı (Ulnia, Zeytun)	10	605	85	15
Sis and neighbourhood	7	476	165	19
Adana	25	1 1,947	808	69
Kahramanmaraş (Maraş)	23	1,361	378	44
Cilicia	90	6,673	2,509	245
Edirne (Adrianople)	6	314	251	22
Tekirdağ (Rodosto)	9	1,017	856	48
İzmit (Nicomedia)	38	5,404	3,103	212
Bilecik	10	1,120	143	21
Kütahya	5	825	349	23
İzmir (Smyrna)	27	1,640	1,295	109
Ankara (Angora)	7	895	395	29
Kayseri (Kesaria)	42	3,795	1,140	125
Samsun (Amisos)	27	1,361	344	59
Trabzon (Trapizon)	47	2,184	718	85
Baghdad	2	68	46	11
Yozgat (Bozok)	12	1,197	557	43
Bursa (Brusa)	16	1,345	733	54
Balıkesir and Bandırma	8	700	634	35
Tokat	11	1,408	558	50
Kastamonu	3	110	50	2
Konya	3	213	137	12
Akmeşe (Armasha)	2	190	110	6
The Rest of Empire	275	27,786	11,419	946
TOTAL	803	59,513	21,713	2,088

See also

• List of Armenian Schools worldwide
• Education in Armenia
• Education in Turkey
• Armenian education in the Ottoman Empire