The Armenian Diplomatic Mission in Constantinople (1918-1923) in the Archivio Apostolico Vaticano

Abstract

In 2018 Armenia commemorates the centenary of the First Republic (1918-1920). The archive of the diplomatic representative in Istanbul, which operated in the city on the Bosporus until the end of the summer of 1923 and now found among the papers of the Pontifical delegate in Turkey, gives opportunity to retrace the parable of the small Caucasian Republic, especially in the deeds of its representatives in Paris; to dwell on the activity of the Holy See in favour of the Armenian State; and to formulate a hypothesis on the reasons why the archive is now preserved in the Vatican records.