Nomads are an important but neglected and misunderstood element of the Ottoman Society. Subject to great resettlement attempts in the XVIIth and XIXth centuries, they would lose their place in the Ottoman classical era as ...

Depending on the political developments from the XIXth century, like many places of the world, Anatolia witnessed significant demographic movements. Though internal migration emerged within the Ottoman Empire during the ...

The Ottoman Empire entered a transition and revolution in military, financial, and administrative fields with the imperial edict of Gülhane. In order to increase the influence of the central authority, the provincial ...

The Central North Anatolian basin was a region Turkmens were grouped, taking part in the second-generation border line in the conquest of Anatolia and playing an active role in the establishment of the empire. Also, it is ...