Khoy
Mixed Armenian, Assyrian and Azerbaijani population; deportation transit point 1914-15.
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
Place context
Post-Turkmenchay migration node
Khoy is a north-western Iranian town near the Ottoman and Russian frontier zones. It was one of the places named in connection with Armenian movement after the Treaty of Turkmenchay. Families from Khoy and nearby districts crossed into the Russian Empire as part of the larger migration that reshaped Erivan and Nakhichevan after 1828.
The town's significance is therefore relational. It is not a central battlefield in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, but it is part of the demographic evidence used in modern arguments about who became numerous where and when. The same migration can be described as imperial resettlement, Armenian return or demographic engineering depending on the speaker's frame. The atlas treats it as an organised imperial migration with real political consequences. editorial
Demographics over time
| Year | People | Share | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | Armenian | 15% | , | Eden Naby |
| 1914 | Azerbaijani | 70% | 25,000 | Eden Naby |
Events located here
| Year | Event | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| 1914 | Salmas, Khoy and Urmia massacres of Christians in Persian Azerbaijan | massacre |