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Provincial Governorate Printing Office

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Historical Introduction
1866 y․

The Press of the Provincial Governorate was the first printing-house in Karin, which began the publication of the “Envare Shargiy” newspaper in 1866: “...[its] first and last, i.e. fourth, faces are in Turkish letters, while the second and third ones are in the Armenian script, but in the Turkish language...”

Երիցեան Ա., Մի երես Կարնոյ նորագոյն պատմութիւնից, «Փորձ», 1879, I, էջ 178: Abrahamian Emma, Printing-Houses Throughout the Armenian Homeland, in: "Vardzk", 2012, N 6, p. 16.

1860 y․

In the 1860s, Archimandrite Mkrtich Khrimian, who was anxious about having an Armenian press in Karin, asked Garegin Servandztiants, who was in the city, to find out “...the state of the Turkish press of Karin to determine whether it was possible to purchase it and enrich it with Armenian letters.” However, M. Khrimian failed to carry out his plan, and the city acquired an Armenian press only in 1908.

Կոստանդյան Է., Մկրտիչ Խրիմյան. հասարակական-քաղաքական գործունեությունը, Երևան, 2000, էջ 128: Abrahamian Emma, Printing-Houses Throughout the Armenian Homeland, in: "Vardzk", 2012, N 6, p. 16.