According to various sources, Armenians have settled in Brazil since the 1890s when individual Armenian families from Constantinople and the provinces of Western Armenia crossed the ocean and began to live in the eastern regions of Brazil. In the second half of the 19th century, Armenians began to move to other countries, including the Americas due to the daily persecution and massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. However, the formation of the Brazilian-Armenian community took place in 1920-1926, when large groups of Armenians mainly from Cilicia, settled in São Paulo.