Country: Russia
Group: Nogai
Date: 4/5/2022
Name: Nichole Dahlen (Lead), Omer Carrillo
Content Warning: Forced relocation, war
Approximate Time Period: 1770-1790
Catherine the Great’s government relocated an estimated 120,000 Nogais “from Bessarabia and areas northeast of the Sea of Azov to the Kuban and the Caucasus” during the 1770s and 1780s (Staples, 2003). During this time, Catherine the Great annexed Crimea, Taman, and Kuban (Wikipedia, 2021). Due to the forced annexation, many Nogais who lived in these regions relocated. Additionally, Prince Gregory Potempkin relocated approximately 1000 Nogai families, fearing the Nogais would defect during the Russo-Turkish war. He moved the families from the Caucasus to the “north shore of the Sea of Azov” (Staples, 2003). Russian and Cossack troops enforced the Nogai resettlement. In response to forced relocation, the Nogais staged an uprising, ending in their brutal defeat (Wikipedia, 2021).
The evidence ranking is a 2/3. The sources provided more concrete details of the case than typical. However, most information came from unreliable sources like Wikipedia. Original sources could not be found as Wikipedia cited Russian sources and inaccessible books.
Sources
- Wikipedia. Kuban Nogai uprising. (2021). In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuban_Nogai_Uprising#:~:text=The%20Nogai%20suffere
- Staples, J. R. (2003). Cross-cultural encounters on the Ukrainian steppe: settling the Molochna Basin, 1783-1861. Maldives: University of Toronto Press.