The Lost Circassia and the Found Circassians: Caucasian Migration to the Ottoman Empire
Journal: Türkiyat Mecmuası / Journal of Turkology
Year: 2022

The article deals with the history of pan-Caucasian (Circassian) nation-building in the context of international relations, which helps to provide a new look at the migration from the North Caucasus to the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century. The author analyses a wide range of materials including archival documents, historiographical works, and the British and French press to show that subjectification of the Caucasus in the international arena and Circassian nation-building were the real trigge