Armenians in Myanmar

"[2] Armenians were deported in large numbers to New Julfa, on the outskirts of Isfahan (Persia), early in the seventeenth century.

Many continued on to South and Southeast Asia in the eighteenth century as conditions turned against them in Persia.

In Burma, major Armenian traders were employed as officials by the Burmese kings, especially in charge of customs and relations with foreigners.

Nevertheless, the Armenians of Yangon built their church in 1862, on land presented to them by the King of Burma.

The 1871-1872 Census of British India said that there were 1,250 Armenians, chiefly in Kolkata, Dhaka and Yangon.