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commodity circulation, but also input their taste, traditions and world-view into this
environment.
Though at the end of the work Qyomurchyan confesses that he did not include all
the parts of the city, 17
nevertheless, various districts, streets and quarters of
Constantinople are presented quite in details. It is a rich, flourishing and eventful city,
city of life, which was heartily built and reconstructed by all the nations inhabiting
Constantinople, though their vital presence in that city is not a reality any more, so their
merits and traces have been just transformed to history.
Though Qyomurchyan does not report statistical correct data about the
population number of the city, he brings additional evidences, which give some picture
about the solid number of inhabitants: thus, due to his data, there were 120 bake
houses 18 , more than 100 beef and mutton stores only near the 13th door of the city, not
taking into account janissaries' and court butchers’ stalls 19 . I don’t fine necessary to
mention here numerous stores, manufactories, shops, hospitals and other
establishments of social importance quoted by the historiograph. Nevertheless, I think
that Constantinople having the traditions and characteristics mentioned above claimed
to have the status of the city of modern times, to adopt the new components and
notions that have been interposed by historical thinking of new period.
The poetical work §Ð³Ù³éûï ëïáñ³·ñáõÃÇõÝ Î. äáÉëÇ Ý»ÕáõóǦ (“Short
signature of Constantinople’s channel”) is classified to the serial of topographic writings
which is conceivably translated also into Italian. It is a work of topographic nature,
17 ̳ÝÇ°ñ ½Ç ³Ûëù Áݹ μáÉáñ`
³ñï³ùáÛ å³ñëåÇë ï»ë³Ý.
½Ç ½Ù¿ç ù³Õ³ùÇÝ ÃáÕ³ù`
Ù»½ ß³ï ¿ ³ë»É ³ñ¹ ½³Û¹ù³Ý: Then he enumerates which to parts of the city he did not refer. See
Yeremia Qyomurchyan, “History of Constantinople” (in Armenian language) , volume I, p. 111-112.
18 See the same, p. 36.
19 See the same, p. 54.
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