THE IMPACT OF CAUCASIAN WAR ON INTERNAL MIGRATION OF THE POPULATION OF DAGESTAN

The Caucasian war had a significant impact on both the internal and the external migration situation in Dagestan. First noticeable negative impact made war on internal seasonal movement of highlanders to the plains to exchange goods, livestock and handicrafts, and seasonal movements of the relatively large proportion of the adult male population in search of work to the plains of Dagestan. One of the consequences of the national liberation movement 1820-1850s of the mountaineers of Dagestan there was a mass migration of highlanders who did not want to participate in the Caucasian war in the Caucasus. The most severe effects were villagers caught in the crossfire. Military operations and their accompanying destruction of villages, forced inhabitants to move to other areas, the result of forced migration have changed the boundaries of the settlement of peoples.

migration processes, resettlement of mountaineers, theocratic state - the imamate, national liberation movement, internal migration, external migration, mountainous Dagestan, migration movement, rebellion of mountaineers, Caucasian war, trade and economic relations, trade relations, tsar’s troops