Of important shifts in population took place in the Ottoman Empire, often volunteers they could also be forced. Sürgün is a translatable Turkish term by exile, expulsion or simply obligatory transport of a place to another. It was a question of transferring in a coercive way of the subjects from the Empire of a point to another either to furnish the borders sometimes by replacing the not very sure local population judged by the newcomers or to repopulate and redynamiser certain cities. Moslems, Jews and Christians could be touched by this measurement

See too

• Sürgün (the Crimea)