The following text is written with three objectives. The first is to present an unpublished document so far in Spanish from the imperial and royal archives of Austria in 1896 on the genocidal killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. The second is, following the line of the Dadrian researcher, to find more connections between the Armenian question and the question of the East by putting us alongside the historians who would consider them more as one than as two different but interconnected issues. The third is to present in Spanish, through the contributions of western contemporary armenology, especially American, English and French, the fate of one of the oldest peoples of the world and the state of the Armenian genocide problem in the present day of Enlargement of the European Community to the East and the controversial candidacy of Turkey. The document that we present in Spanish translation is an economic-political study of the Ottoman vilayato Mamuret-ul-Aziz, produced by the Austro-Hungarian mayor Zagoulic in December 1896. Vienna asks his consul the development of this report because he needs truthful information about the slaughters of Armenians perpetrated in the Ottoman Empire, being one of the villages of Mamuret- * ul- * Aziz, during which they lose their lives more than two hundred Armenians. Thus, the abundant and rigorously structured information compiled in the document describes the context of massacres that are of greatest interest. Hence the importance of this testimony written about what happened: Vienna is an ally of Germany and, respectively, of the Ottoman Empire and considers the maintenance of its territorial integrity as vital to its own existence and for the realization of its political course of expansion towards the Mediterranean Sea. Therefore it has all the interest to cover the incident and to avoid that it has negative consequences for the perpetrators of the crimes.
