Yerevan/Mediamax/. University of California Press has released a new book by Sebouh Aslanian, “From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa.”

Mediamax reports referring University of California Press that drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire.

Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, these merchants operated a network of commercial settlements that stretched from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. The New Julfan Armenians were the only Eurasian community that was able to operate simultaneously and successfully in all the major empires of the early modern world.

\"Sebouh David Aslanian draws upon an unrivaled body of original documentation, collected in seven languages from twenty-five archives, to reconstruct in great detail the logic and working of a global commercial network,” says Edward Alpers, Professor of University of California, author of “East Africa and the Indian Ocean”.