bilig-17/ Spring 2001

THE APPROACHMENT OF THE OTTOMAN STATE TO
THE SLAVERY INSTITUTION OF THE CAUCASIAN EMIGRANTS

 

Ufuk TAVKUL
The Prime Ministry, General Directorate of State Archives


ABSTRACT

In the middle of the 19th century, a huge amount of emigrants from the Balkan countries, Crimea and the Caucasus had emigrated to the Ottoman state. Most of the Caucasian emigrants who belonged to Abkhaz, Adige (Circassian), Karachay-Balkar, Osset, Chechen-Ingush and Dagestan peoples had come to the Ottoman state between 1858-1864 years. The Emigrant Comission of the Ottoman state was in trouble to settle the emigrants in the proper lands of the state, because the Caucasian emigrants had different languages, customs and social structures. The social strafication system and the slavery institution of the Caucasian emigrants had caused problems in the settlement policy of the Ottoman state. In the Ottoman archives there are a lot of documents about the slavery institution and the social strafication system of the Caucasian emigrants


Key Words : Caucasian Emigrants, Social Strafication, Slavery, Adige, Karachay-Balkar, Caucasian Peoples, Ottoman State, Ottoman Archives

 

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