ottomans
a moveable empire ottoman nomads migrants and refugees
this history of the ottoman empire focuses on the migrant groups that lived within its boundaries and their changing relationship to the states central authorities . mobile groups played an important role in shaping ottoman institutions and the early republican structures of modern turkey . resat kasaba is professor of international studies at the university of wasington and author of the ottoman empire and the world economy and rethinking modernity and national identity in turkey .