From Crimea to Dobruja
Year: 2021

Nearly two-hundred thousand Crimean Tatars left their native peninsula in the aftermath of the Crimean War to settle in the Ottoman Empire. About one half put down roots in Ottoman Dobruja, a region nestled in the northern borderlands of the Ottoman Empire between the Danube River and the Black Sea. This chapter examines both the migration and the settlement of the Crimean Tatars in the region, relying chiefly on archival documents produced locally by various historical actors in Ottoman Turkish