Circassians
Cherkess

There is even a street named Cherkess Street as well as a large family of the same name.

Alternative theories also suggest his Tartar or Cherkess ancestry.

Adygean music is closely related to Kabardian, Cherkess and Shapsugh music.

The name Indyl (Indɨl) is used in Adyge (Cherkess) language.

"The Adyghe (cherkess) encyclopedia".

His only weapon was a broad curved Cherkess knife in an ivory sheath girdled high on his left hip, kozak fashion.

The terms "Circassian" and "Cherkess" are sometimes also used as synonyms for the Northwest Caucasian languages in general.

Overview Facts Leaders Media The Karachay and Cherkess are two separate Muslim peoples.

The renowned Beibulat, the most feared man in the Caucasus, came to Arzrum with two elders from Cherkess villages.

Others, however, see it as "artificial tensions" created by puppet governments (be they run by ethnic Cherkess or by Karachay) of Moscow.

In 1957 it and the Cherkess Autonomous Oblast merged to reinstate the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Oblast.

The exonym Cherkess is applied to the Adyghe by the Turkic peoples (principally Kyrgyz, Tatar and Turkish) and the Russians.

The city is inhabited by native Cherkess (Circassians), Karachays, Russians, Abaza, Nogays and minorities of Greeks and Armenians.

History of Shovgenovsky District dates back to July 27, 1922, when Adyghe (Cherkess) Autonomous Oblast was established within the Russian SFSR.

The garmon is an important musical instrument for Caucasian (Azeri, Georgian, Chechen, Cherkess, etc.) and Volgian (Tatar, Mari) folk and popular music.

In 1915, during World War I in Galicia, Croatian soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian Army were sent on Eastern Front to fight against Russian Army and Cherkess bandits.

Circassian Culture and Folklore: Hospitality Traditions, Cuisine, Festivals & Music (Kabardian, Cherkess, Adigean, Shapsugh & Diaspora), London: Bennett and Bloom, 2010.

During the time of the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (1920-1946), Circassians served with the French troops in the "escadron tcherkesse" (Cherkess squadron), earning them enduring distrust from the Syrian Sunni Arabs.

The remaining territory populated by the Cherkessians was known as Cherkess Autonomous Oblast until January 9, 1957 when it was re-established into Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Oblast in its former borders due to the re-habilitation of the Karachay.

"I always considered I came from a great big country," said Mr. Akhmetov, a Cherkess whose wife, Tanya, is a Belarusan, "but now I must say to myself that I am a Cherkess."