The Russo-Ottoman struggle over the support of the Muslims of Southern Caucasus in the 1890s
Journal: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
Year: 2023

The Russo-Ottoman conflict spread over centuries of wars and campaigns between wars. This article delves into one of those campaigns, which took place in the Southern Caucasus in the 1890s. In that decade, the Muslim population of that region found themselves being courted by both the Ottoman and Russian empires, each pursuing its own interests against the other. This struggle was set in the general historical context of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus, but the Muslim population of the Sout