According to Ivan Shopen’s (Chopin) statistical account of the Yerevan Khanate – “A Statistical Survey for the Administration of the Armenian Province” (in Russian – «Камеральное описание Армянской области»), the total population of the khanate was 115.106, of which Muslims- 49.872, Armenians- 65.234.
The Muslim population of the khanate consisted of Persians (Shii), Kurds (Shii and Sunni), and Turkish nomads. The majority of the Muslim population was Kurds. After the Russian conquest of the khanate, 14.500 Kurds, mostly Sunni, left the area, while nearly 11.000 remained. Almost all the Kurds who left the area were Sunni. All Yezidi Kurds of the khanate – remained. (See more- https://www.aniarc.am/2015/04/30/the-kurdish-nomads-who-remained-in-the-erevan-khanate-following-the-second-russo-persian-war-1826-1828/).
Shopen stayed three years in Yerevan (1829-1832) and prepared the first statistical account of the area based on Russian military figures, interviews with the population, and the Persian tax records of the previous administration.
The total number of Kurdish nomads in Yerevan khanate in Persian times exceeded 25.000.
– Kurdish nomads who left –
Tribe Families Population
Zilan 2.000 11.000 (est.)
Bilkhinkhanli 184 1.000
Khalikhanli 146 750
Sakendli 102 500
Jamadinli 100 500
Mesr-Kendli 72 400
Kizil-Bash Ushagli 60 359
Total 2.664 14.500
A history of Eastern Armenia (the Eerevan Khanate was part of it) between 15th century and the Russian conquest (1828) may be divided into five periods (George A. Bournoutian, “Eastern Armenia in the Last Decade of Persian Rule, 1807-1828”, p. 7);
the period of nomadic domination by various Turkic tribes (ca. 1400-1500),
the early Safavid era (1501-1603);
the middle and late Safavid period (1604-1722);
the time of political upheavals and semiindependent activity of former vassals (1723-1795);
the Qajar period (1795-1828).
