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Creating an “Ottoman Siberia”: Punitive Mobility and Imperial Governance in the Late Ottoman Empire

This article examines exile as a mode of punishment and governance in the late Ottoman Empire. Drawing on foreign ministry and diplomatic records, intergovernmental correspondence, and penal legislation, I argue that exile was part of an expansive and legally entrenched system of punitive mobility characterized by the forced movement of convicts. Against narratives that treat imprisonment as the defining mode of mod…

picked 14 Aug 2026

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Imperial Society of Russian History and Antiquities

Russian organization

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