Later they absorbed the surviving nomadic descendants of the authentic autochtons.
Unlike urban formations before the eighteenth century, these new towns absorbed nomadic and religious elements into their residential and secular spaces.
A rather remarkable deficiency of the new land legislation is the total neglect of pastoral and nomadic rights.
However, the nomadic pastoral zones and their people could never be completely 'tamed' or made gentlemen soldiers until the 1850s.
Wandering in a faux pastoral, the nomadic dervish has no town, no ethnicity, and no specific territory.
Since the late 19th century, modern nation-states have sought to fix pastoral nomadic societies through various policies of settlement and sedentarization.
This is surprising since these dry lands were of the utmost importance for nomadic livestock keeping, and therefore formed an important economic resource.
The antipathy to them has been called sedentarism, which is defined as a specific form of racism against nomadic modes of existence.
