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Discuss changes, request unprotection, or create an account. | The term Circassians is a term derived from the Turkic Cherkess (Çerkes), and is not the self-designation of any people. It has sometimes been applied indiscriminately to all the peoples of the North Caucasus. Most specifically, the term can apply only to the Adyghe. Today a significant number of "Circassians" lives in diaspora, primarily due to the Muhajirism, an exodus of Muslim population from Caucasus since 1863 after the successful Russian invasion of the Caucasus. Image File history File links Padlock. ...
The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China with an estimated 140 million native speakers and tens of millions of second-language speakers. ...
The Ethnolinguistic patchwork of the modern Caucasus - CIA map Russia Georgia Azerbaijan (Azer. ...
The Adyghe or Adygs are a people of the northwest Caucasus region, principally inhabiting Adygeya (23 %) (now a constituent republic of the Russian Federation) and Karachay-Cherkessia (11 %) (where they are named as Cherkess). Shapsigh Autonomous District, an autonomous district founded for Shapsigh (or Shapsugh) tribe living on the Black...
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Muhajirism was the emigration of Muslim indigenous peoples of the Caucasus into the Ottoman Empire and Middle East following the Caucasian War. ...
Exodus is the second book of the Torah, the Tanakh, and the Old Testament. ...
A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian and Urdu: مسلمان, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of Islam. ...
The Ethnolinguistic patchwork of the modern Caucasus - CIA map Russia Georgia Azerbaijan (Azer. ...
Construction of the Georgian Military Road through disputed territories was a key factor in the eventual Russian success. ...
More commonly it has referred to all the peoples of the Northwest Caucasus:
to the exclusion of the eastern Chechens and the peoples of Dagestan. The Adyghe or Adygs are a people of the northwest Caucasus region, principally inhabiting Adygeya (23 %) (now a constituent republic of the Russian Federation) and Karachay-Cherkessia (11 %) (where they are named as Cherkess). Shapsigh Autonomous District, an autonomous district founded for Shapsigh (or Shapsugh) tribe living on the Black...
Circassia, also known as Cherkessia in Russian, is a region in Caucasia. ...
Kabarda, Kabard or Kabarid are simply alternative ways of referring to the Kabar people of the northern Caucasus more commonly known by the plural term Kabardin (or Kebertei as they term themselves). ...
The Abkhaz or Abkhazians are a caucasian ethnic group, mainly living in Abkhazia, and distinct from Georgians. ...
The Abazins (self-designation: Abaza) are a people who live mostly in Karachay-Cherkessia and Adygeya of Russia. ...
The Ubykh people are a group who spoke the Northwest Caucasian Ubykh language, up until 1992. ...
// Geography The Chechen people are mainly inhabitants of Chechnya, which is internationally recognized as part of Russia. ...
The Republic of Dagestan IPA: (Russian: ), older spelling Daghestan, is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ...
The term's vagueness stems largely from the fact that the northern Caucasus was a remote and relatively unknown area for Westerners and Turks, who often did not distinguish carefully between similar groups living there.
Various communities of Caucasian origin living in the Middle East, notably Jordan and Syria, are known as Circassians, and a suburb of Damascus settled by these people is called Al-Tcharkassiyya. Modern Amman was reborn after Circassians settled there in 1878. Another important Jordanian town re-established by Circassians in 1878 was Jerash. A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...
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Location of Amman within Jordan. ...
The oval forum and main street of Roman Jerash, with modern Jerash rising behind them Map of the Decapolis showing location of Gerasa (Jerash) Jerash (ancient Antioch-on-the-Chrysorhoas, also known as Gerasa) was a city of the Graceo-Roman Decapolis, its ruins now located in the Gilead region...
During the French Mandate period in Syria, in the 1930s, some Circassians in the mostly Circassian town of Al-Quneitra tried to convince the French authorities to create a Circassian national home for them in the Golan Heights, but failed in their attempt. The objective was to group there large numbers of Circassians already living in Turkey and in various Middle Eastern countries. The French Mandate of Syria was a League of Nations Mandate created after the First World War when the Ottoman Empire was split by the Treaty of Versailles. ...
The town of Al-Qunaytirah in September 2001 Quneitra or Al Qunaytirah (Arabic القنيطرة) is a city of southwestern Syria that is now largely abandoned. ...
Sites on the Golan in blue are Israeli settlement communities. ...
Another small minority of Circassians lived since the late 1880's in Kosovo Polje, which was given mention by Noel Malcolm in his seminal work about that province, but they were repatriated to the Republic of Adygea, in Southern Russia in the late 1990's[1]. 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
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The Republic of Adygea (Russian: ; Adyghe: ) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic) enclaved within Krasnodar Krai. ...
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In Israel, there are also a few thousand Circassians, living mostly in Kfar-Kama and Reyhaniye. These two villages were a part of a greater group of Circassian villages around the Golan Heights. The Circassians in Israel enjoy, like Druzes, a status aparte. Male Circassians are mandated for military service, while females are not. Kfar-Kama is located in the Galilee, Israel. ...
Sites on the Golan in blue are Israeli settlement communities. ...
Druze star Druze The Druze (also known as Druse; Arabic: darazī درزي, pl. ...
Circassians (черкези) were introduced to the territory of modern Bulgaria during the Ottoman rule of the country, mostly in 1864–1865 [2] to serve as bashi-bazouks. They are known to have pillaged many villages in the 19th century and to have taken an active part in the suppression of the Bulgarian uprisings. After 1878, when Bulgaria became a separate state, most Circassians fled from the country to Turkey fearing a Bulgarian retribution. Today only some 1,300 people identify as Circassians in Bulgaria. // Early centuries of Ottoman rule Organisation of Ottoman Bulgaria The Ottomans reorganised the Bulgarian territories as the Beyerlik of Rumili, ruled by a Beylerbey at Sofia. ...
1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...
1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ...
A bashi-bazouk (in Turkish başıbozuk, meaning disorganized, leaderless) was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman army. ...
Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Around 1600, several emigrants from the Caucasus region, of somewhat noble blood, settled in the then Principality of Moldavia, and became under the name "Cerchez" (pronounced Cherkez in Romanian) one of its 72 boyar families. In time they were assimilated into the general population. However one of the last descendants of this family was a Romanian national hero in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. One of the main halls of the Cotroceni palace in Bucharest is named "Sala Cerchez" ("Cerchez Hall") in memory of General Cerchez. It has been suggested that Moldavia (historical region) be merged into this article or section. ...
A boyar (also spelled bojar) or bolyarin was a member of the highest rank of the feudal Russian, Romanian and Bulgarian aristocracy, second only to the ruling princes, from the tenth through the seventeenth century. ...
Combatants Russia, Romania Ottoman Empire The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 had its origins in the Russian goal of gaining access to the Mediterranean Sea and liberating the Orthodox Christian Slavic peoples of the Balkan Peninsula (Bulgarians, Serbians) from the Islamic-ruled Ottoman Empire. ...
House in Cotroceni neighbourhood. ...
Status Capital of Romania Mayor Adriean Videanu, since 2005 Area 228 km² Population (2003) 1,929,615[1] Density 9131. ...
See also
The Adyghe or Adygs are a people of the northwest Caucasus region, principally inhabiting Adygeya (23 %) (now a constituent republic of the Russian Federation) and Karachay-Cherkessia (11 %) (where they are named as Cherkess). Shapsigh Autonomous District, an autonomous district founded for Shapsigh (or Shapsugh) tribe living on the Black...
In 1856 The New York Daily Times reported that a consequence of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus was a glut of beautiful Circassian women on the Constantinople slave market, and that this was causing prices of slaves in general to plummet. ...
References - Shtendel, Uri , The Circassians in Israel, Am Hasefer Tel Aviv, 1973
External links - Circassian World: Historical Publications and Articles
- Adigha Story: Popular Publications and Articles
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