Population
As a result of the continued wars in the region and Shah Abbas I's deportation of much of the Armenian population from the Ararat plain and the surrounding region in 1605, Armenians formed about less than 20% (about 15,000) of the population at the time of the Russian annexation of the Erevan Khanate in 1828, while the remaining 80% was made up of Muslims (Persian, Azeri, Kurdish), forming a total population of 102,000.
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