The Caucasus is a region located partly in Eastern Europe and partly in Western Asia, spanning Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and southern Russia. Bounded by the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, it inclu
Caucasian peoples: Georgians, Persians (in Azerbaijan), Circassians, Tatars (Azerbaijanis), and Ingush
The medieval Georgian village of Shatili
Ethnic groups inhabiting the Caucasus region
The village of Tindi, in Dagestan, in the late 1890s
Circassians
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The Circassians, also known as the Cherkess or the Adyghe, are a Northwest Caucasian ethnic group native to Circassia, a region and former country in the North Caucasus. As a consequence of the 19th-c
Ethnic groups in the Caucasus
…Abkhazians Circassians Abzakhs Besleneys Bzhedugs Chemirgoys Kabardians Natukhajs Shapsugs Ubykhs The largest peoples speaking languages which belong to the Caucasian language…
Circassian warrior armed with Khirimi, Kindjal, & Shashka.
Hadim Yusuf Pasha, Ottoman Governor of Baghdad in 1605-1606, a Circassian by birth and a eunuch. Sefernāme of Muhlisi (BNF, Turc 127).
Circassian children from Maykop, Adygea, with the Circassian flag, 2014
Circassian traditional sword dance