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Armenian Trade Networks: Merchants of the Silk Road
Long before the Genocide and the Republic, Armenian merchants were the invisible infrastructure of the Silk Road. This episode follows the vacharakank — the travelling Armenian traders — who established colonies from Lviv to Lahore, from Astrakhan to Venice. Lucas and Luna explore how a small, landlocked nation became a commercial powerhouse by leveraging diaspora networks, trust-based contracts, and linguistic agility. We meet the medieval merchant communities of New Julfa, whose Safavid-sponsored trading houses stretched from Isfahan to Canton. We discuss the role of Armenian translators…
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