Abadzekhs, being the second most numerous tribe (the first was the Shapsugs).

Shapsugs are primarily Sunni Muslims.

Natuhays, like Shapsugs and Abadzehs, managed to limit the power of noble men of their tribe.

Official site of shapsugs (Russian/Adyghe)

Before the Caucasian War Abzakhs inhabited the northern slope of the Caucasus mountain range, near the land of the shapsugs.

Tuapse is a large center (native land) for the Shapsugs tribe with other areas in Circassia, with about 10,000 speakers of the language living in Tuapse.

North Caucasian tribes which settled in Iraq include: Abkhaz, Adyghes, Kabardin, Shapsugs, Ingush, Chechens, Avars, Lezgins, and Kumyks.

The number of the Circassian families which established Naour in 1900 was about 55 families descending from different Circassians tribes like the Abzakh, Shapsugs, Bazadough and a few from the Kabarday.

According to some indirect data, there were over four thousand Shapsugs in Russia in 1926, but the Shapsug people were not enumerated as a separate group in Russian Censuses until 2002, when the population was recorded at 3,231.

She was from the Shapsugs Tribe of Circassia who was initially the fourth, then the third wife of Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I and the biological mother of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

There is a feeling among some Circassians that the notion that Kabardins, Adyghe, Cherkes and Shapsugs (all four are separate on the Russian census) are different nations is a Kremlin strategy designed to divide the Circassian nation.

When the Shapsugs felt that the resistance was impossible to carry on; due to the cut of the marine logistics' lines and to the lack of weapons, they stopped resisting, and some of them went to the Kuban previously occupied settlements for other Adyghe tribes and established their own villages.