Circassia
| Circassia | ||||||||||
| Адыгэ Хэку | ||||||||||
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 Circassia in 1750
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| Capital | Sochi | |||||||||
| Languages | Circassian | |||||||||
| Religion | Islam, Christianity, Traditional | |||||||||
| Government | Confederation | |||||||||
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| • | Established | c. 1500 | ||||||||
| • | Russian–Circassian War | 1763–1864 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 1864 | ||||||||
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Flag of Circassia
Circassia (Adyghe: Адыгэ Хэку,Russian: Черке́сия, Georgian: ჩერქეზეთი, Arabic: شيركاسيا) is a region in the North Caucasus and along the northeast shore of the Black Sea. It is the ancestral homeland of the Circassian people.
The name Circassia is a Latinisation of Cherkess (modern Turkish: Çerkes), the Turkic name for the Adyghe people, and originated in the 15th century with medieval Genoese merchants and travellers to Circassia. The name Cherkess is traditionally applied to the Adyghe by neighbouring Turkic peoples (principally Crimean Tatars and Ottoman Turks).
Another historical name for the country was Zyx or the Zygii. The Zygii have been described by the ancient Greek intellectual Strabo as a nation to the north of Colchis.
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