Balkan immigrants village at Sivrihisar
Istanbul, Türkiye
Istanbul University, Nadir Eserler Kütüphanesi (Rare Books Library)
19th century
Photograph
Istanbul
The civilian population living in the Balkans was forced to migrate to Anatolia due to the Balkan Wars at the end of the 18th century: the 1821 Mora rebellion, the 1856 Crimean war, the 1864 Russian-Caucasian war, the 1877-1878 Ottoman-Russian War, the 1896-97 Crete Rebellion, the 1912-13 Balkan Wars, World War I from 1914 to 1918 and the 1919-22 Greek-Turkish War. These wars resulted in mass migrations. The Ottoman Empire lost almost all its European territories west of the River Maritsa, drawing present day Turkey's western border. A large influx of Turks started to flee into the Ottoman heartland as a result of the lost lands. By 1914, the remaining core region of the Ottoman Empire had experienced a population increase of around 2.5 million because of the flood of immigration from the Balkans.
"Balkan immigrants village at Sivrihisar" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2025.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;tr;119;en;en
MWNF Working Number: TR2 115
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