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May 2024
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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on Muslim refug...

WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on “Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State” (Stanford University Press). The book explores the forced migration from the Russian Empire of around one million Muslims, who settled in the Ottoman Empire between the 1850s and World War One.

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