Printing Office :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Printing Office 1911 y․

Turkey / Cilicia / Aintap / Aintap

Historical Introduction

Seeing the activity of the Commercial Press, Gevorg S. Palian decided to open his own printing-house: “...he had a printing press made in 1911 and worked it for about a year collaborating alternately with Ryushti Effendi and another Turk. He had no idea about typesetting, but he himself had made the machine and used it without anybody’s help. He was hardly able to continue his work for a year: the press, which was mostly made of wood, grew weaker in summer-time and became something quite different in winter so that it was impossible to produce any work properly. In the long run, it completely fell out of use.”

Պողարեան Գ., Այնթապականք, հ. Ա, Պէյրութ, 1974, էջ 19: Abrahamian Emma, Printing-Houses Throughout the Armenian Homeland, in: "Vardzk", 2012, N 6, p. 15.

It should be pointed out that before the establishment of presses, there were handwritten newspapers and magazines in Aintap. The latter included the “Ainlepen” (1872), published by the pupils of Nersissian National School in Armeno-Turkish); the “Byurakn” (1875), published by the senior pupils of Cilician Boarding-School in Armenian and Armeno-Turkish; the “Yedem=Aden” (1876), published by the junior pupils of Cilician Boarding-School in Armenian and Armeno-Turkish (editor: Vahan Kyurkjian); the “Shirak” (1876, only a single issue, editor: writer and correspondent Vahan Kyurkjian) and the “Drakht” (1877 to 1878), published by the Company of Mesropian Pupils of Sourb Vardanants (editor: Vahan Kyurkjian). The former comprised the “Setaye Hagigat” biweekly (ca. 1878), published by the pupils of K. T. College; the “Astghik Vardanian” (1888 to 1903), published by Vardanian School in Armenian and Turkish; the “Arajin Kayler” (1897 to 1900), published by Aden College, and the “Doghdojun Kayler” weekly (September 1898 to June 1899, publisher: Hakob Ter-Melkonian). From 1903 the “Astghik Vardanian” was published under a new name, “Khoher” (“Meditations”), and around 1914 the “Usum” (“Education”) paper was issued through hectographic printing (publisher: Society of Lovers of Education).

Պողարեան Գ., Այնթապականք, հ. Ա, Պէյրութ, 1974, էջ 8-11: Հայ պարբերական մամուլը (1794-1980), էջ 57, 103: Abrahamian Emma, Printing-Houses Throughout the Armenian Homeland, in: "Vardzk", 2012, N 6, p. 15.