Seventeen Century Traveler Simeon of Lwow’s Impressions of Diyarbakir in 1612

Seventeen century traveler Simeon of Lwow, who visited Diyarbakir in 1612, described the residents as having: “1,000 Armenian houses an all of them are wealthy, luxurious and glorious. And whatever business and riches exist, they possess; the mint, the customs, the caravanserais and the rest… and when it is a Sunday and the Armenians do not open their shops and do not work, you think the town is empty and desolate.

Seventeen century traveler Simeon of Lwow, who visited Diyarbakir in 1612, described the residents as having: “1,000 Armenian houses an all of them are wealthy, luxurious and glorious. And whatever business and riches exist, they possess; the mint, the customs, the caravanserais and the rest… and when it is a Sunday and the Armenians do not open their shops and do not work, you think the town is empty and desolate.