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DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2023.88.49.015
RELATIONS BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE PEOPLES OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS FROM THE MID-15TH TO THE MID-19TH C. (AN OUTLINE)
Chochiev, Georgy V.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2023. IIS 49 (88).
Abstract:
The historical ties between the peoples of the North Caucasus and the Ottoman state remain,
despite the presence of a number of publications on this and related topics, an insufficiently studied
field of Oriental and Caucasian knowledge, primarily due to the limited availability of some
important archival materials for researchers, which makes it a rather urgent task to identify and
introduce into scientific circulation new data on the issue. The proposed note, which by no means
claims to be a comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the topic, presents only a general view of the
main milestones, intensity, nature and content of the relationship between the Ottoman Empire
and the Mountaineer, mainly West Caucasian, polities and communities throughout the four
hundred years of legitimate and/or actual Turkish presence in the region. The specific purpose of
the work is to evaluate, based on an analysis of mainly modern Turkish, but also domestic and
Western historiography and individual documentary and narrative sources, the potential impact of
this experience and the North Caucasian policy of the Porte in general on launching the process of
mass migration of Mountaineers to the Sultan’s domains (the so-called muhajirism) following the
end of the Caucasian War and the complete assertion of Russian sovereignty in the area at the turn
of the 1850s and 1860s. The conclusion is made about the inability of the objective nature of the
Ottoman-Mountaineer contacts to lead to the formation of an Ottoman state and cultural-religious
identity among any part of the indigenous population of the North Caucasus, sufficient to stimulate
group migrations to the lands under the jurisdiction of Istanbul without the simultaneous impact of
significant coercive “push” factors from the Caucasus.
Keywords: Ottoman Empire, North Caucasus, Circassia, sovereignty, vassalage, identity, mass migration.
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