Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky

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Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara. Historian of migration, refugees, Middle East, Caucasus. Author of Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024)

Map of Hajji Ahmed's Journey, 1872–78

Kabardian (eastern Circassian) Princess Gushasukh (in Ottoman Anatolia) to Prince Bekmurza Atazhukin (in tsarist Kabarda). Source: Central State Archive of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Vladikavkaz, Russia, f. 12, op. 8, d. 27, l. 9ob (November 18, 1866)

This map, published by the Turkish-Circassian journal Kamçı in 1970, introduces the convoluted political geography of the Soviet North Caucasus (plus Abkhazia and South Ossetia) to the North Caucasian diaspora in Turkey.