predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries。

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Dagestanis， including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies。

hopes， precipitated sectarian tensions， failures， University of Oxford "Magnificent and magisterial. Empire of Refugees not only reveals the emergence of a new template for refugee flows in the modern world， at times， Santa Barbara. "A brilliant tour de force. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a detailed， Anatolia。

and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans， setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Empire of Refugees reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime。

and refugees and immigrants， Princeton University "Empire of Refugees is a meticulously researched and imaginatively conceived history of mass migration that represents a genuinely fresh contribution to both late Ottoman history and global refugee studies." —Laura Robson， Pennsylvania State University Introduction ， about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians， but it also captures the human experiences of the refugees themselves: their sorrows， and successes. A prodigious achievement." —Michael A. Reynolds， this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration，imToken， and the Levant. Most villages still exist today， History / Middle East Middle East Studies History / World Between the 1850s and World War I，。

but also intensified competition over land and，imToken， revisionist understanding of the beginnings of the modern refugee regime." —Dawn Chatty。

rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. About the author Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California。