Private with the Armenians in the French Campaign of Cilicia

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Here a report of the beginning of 1921 on the population of Cilicie (SHD 4H229). Precautions are taken for saying to which point the numbers are dubious and approximate. They are however interesting to show the diversity of the population.We can imagine that the Christian populations were particularly difficult to evaluate after the massacres of 1909 and 1915, the deportations of 1915, the returns of 1919... and the massacres of 1920.

We will thus take the figures given by the official statistics [ Ottomans ] to know the number of Turks and those given by various nationalities to know the number of the nationals of each one, and we will consider only the proportion as suitable, and we will take only as indication the figures of the various communities. And initially, the number of these nationalities is very high; some have between them a mortal hatred, most of them feel as released from the yoke of the Turkish despotism; all are jealous of their existance and claim the right to the life.

Approximate table indicating the various elements of the population in Cilicia
Religion	Ethnos group	Population
	Turks themselves	140 000
	Ansarieh	100 000
	Kizilbach	40 000
Moslems 372 000	Kurds	25 000
	Tcherkess	20 000
	Various: Gypsies Afghans Cretans Yezidis Arabs Roumeliotes Bulgarian Berber Sudanese	47 000

	Armenians	125 000
	Greeks	60 000
Not Moslems 218 000	Syrians	25 000
	Chaldeens	25 000
	Maronites	3 000
	Nestorians	1 000
	Various: Latin Protestants Jews	1 500
Total		590 000

Population of Cilicia in 1920

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Religion

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Population