Boyaciyan, Arşag Agop - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Mignon, Laurent
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Arşag Agop Boyaciyan (Arshag Hagop Boyajian, 1837-9 December 1914) was an Ottoman Armenian printer and a leader of the Armenian Protestant community Illustration 1. Title page of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress in Greco-Turkish (Karamanlıca), printed at the Boyaciyan press, 1879. Image courtesy of the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT), Istanbul (Phot. Sevil Üzrek). in the Ottoman Empire. He was born in Diyarbakır and educated at Robert College in Istanbul. During the Crimean War (1853-6), he served as a translator at the headquarters of