The seventeenth century was a turning-point in the cultural and demographic history of the Ottoman Empire. Beginning in the late sixteenth century, Ottoman-Armenian subjects began to flee en masse from the Celali Revolts, war with Persia, and famine in Eastern Anatolia to more secure territories in Western Anatolia, Istanbul, and Thrace. This article documents the arrival of Armenian refugees in Thrace using Ottoman Turkish court records from the coastal town of Rodosto (Tekirdag). After describing the micro-history of an Armenian refugee crisis, this article suggests that these migrations played a catalyzing role in the rise of a distinct “Western Armenian” culture and society, which developed for the first time in the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire. The rise of this new society was an event of great importance in Ottoman history, as the Armenians would become a critical part of Ottoman economic and cultural life in the empire’s coastal trade cities.

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亚美尼亚大逃亡：十七世纪奥斯曼帝国的移民与文化变迁

17 世纪是奥斯曼帝国文化和人口历史的转折点。从 16 世纪后期开始，奥斯曼-亚美尼亚的臣民开始从塞拉利起义、与波斯的战争和安纳托利亚东部的饥荒中大批逃离到安纳托利亚西部、伊斯坦布尔和色雷斯的更安全的领土。本文使用来自沿海城镇罗多斯托 (Tekirdag) 的奥斯曼土耳其法庭记录记录了亚美尼亚难民抵达色雷斯的情况。在描述了亚美尼亚难民危机的微观历史后，本文认为这些移民在独特的“西方亚美尼亚”文化和社会的兴起中发挥了催化作用，这种文化和社会在 17 世纪的奥斯曼帝国首次发展起来。这个新社会的兴起在奥斯曼历史上具有重大意义，