Özet:

Crimea and the Caucasus have been the fighting area between the Ottoman state and Russia throughout history. The Ottoman State lost its sovereignty in the Crimea in 1783, and in the Ottoman Russian War of 1828-1829, it also lost its sovereignty in the Caucasus. Russia, who wanted to establish sovereignty in the north of the Black Sea, wanted to russify the region by cleansing the Caucasus from Turkish and Muslim masses to extend the Crimean territory to India. Therefore, the defeats of the Ottoman State against Russia meant that the people of the region were more under pressure. Indeed, the religious, political, social and economic pressures that Russia applied after the Crimean War have led to the continued immigration movements from the Crimean and Caucasian territories to reach mass dimensions. This study discussed the Crimean and Caucasian migrants from the years following the Crimean War to the Cherkes Exile in the migrations between 1858-1864. In this framework, it is intended to reveal the problems that occur during the process from the migrants' footprints to Istanbul to their permanent settlements. The state’s approach to migrants has been given information about the places where they are hosted in Istanbul and the areas where they are shipped in Anadolu. In the study, migrants recorded the population records and archive documents primarily used from published works. The data in the books also contain information about the family structures and the average age of migrants.

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