Historical, Philosophical, Political and Law Sciences, Culturology and Study of Art. Issues of Theory and Practice. Tambov: Gramota, 2012. № 7. Part 2. P. 161-165.
WESTERN CAUCASUS PEOPLES' MIGRATION TO OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIXTH CENTURY: MAIN REASONS
Sultanyan Sergei Akopovich
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow
Abstract. The author reveals the complex of the reasons of Western Caucasus peoples' mass migrations to the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the XIXth century, basing on archival sources for the first time determines the degree of religious factor influence on hill people migration, and discusses the question of Caucasian hill people's civilization perception of the Russian state and Russian ethnic group that is poorly studied by historians dealing with Caucasus.
Key words and phrases: махаджирство, миграции народов Западного Кавказа, западно-кавказские горцы, черкесы, Кавказская война, Muhajirun, Western Caucasus peoples' migrations, Western Caucasus hill people, Circassian, Caucasian War
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