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Map of Armenian-owned shops in Mexico City, 1930. La Merced was known popularly as "Suez Canal" at the time because it had so many Middle Eastern merchants, and even today the area is full of restaurants and bars with names like La Palestina and Le Caire. Many Armenians in Mexico worked as shoemakers, a skill taught in orphanages set up after the 1915-18 Ottoman Genocide. The first Armenians in Mexico City are recorded in the 1720s. They came as merchants from Isfahan, Iran via the Manila Galleon trade that connected the Philippines to Acapulco. Their descendants assimilated into Mexican society. It would be two more centuries before Armenians became a substantial community in Mexico. Source: Carlos Antaramian. Read his article on Armenian history in Mexico City here: https://www.academia.edu/4471618/_Armenians_in_1930s_Mexico_City_Journal_of_the_Society_for_Armenian_Studies_Society_for_Armenian_Studies_Fresno_CA_Junio_2010_19_1_pp._45-60_ISSN_0747-9301 Russian Join:-@illyrianometer