Designing Mental Statehood: The creation of the Tabula Chorographica Armenica

The author of the Tabula Eremia Keomurtchean left a long didascalia at the top of the map, which gives us the key to understand his motivations and to consider the Tabula in a broader political and cultural environment of 17th century Constantinople. Questions such as the intellectual background of the author; the political aspirations of Armenian community; the diplomatic relations between European powers and the Ottoman Empire; the missions of count Marsili in Orient and the possible purposes of his commission will be addressed.