Tscherkessen
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/75754
- Name (English)
- Tscherkessen
- Short name
- circassians
- Short Description
- "The Circassians (Russian: Черкесы, Čerkesy; Turkish: Çerkesler), also known by their endonym Adyghe (Circassian: Адыгэхэр, Adygekher; Russian: Адыги, Adygi; Turkish: Adığeler), are a Northwest Caucasian[29] ethnic group native to Circassia, many of whom were displaced in the course of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century, especially after the Russo-Circassian War in 1864. The Circassians mainly speak the Circassian languages, a Northwest Caucasian dialect continuum with three main dialects and numerous sub-dialects. Many Circassians also speak Turkish, Russian, English, Arabic and Hebrew, having been exiled by Russia to lands of the Ottoman Empire, where the majority of them live today.[30][better source needed] Most Circassians are Sunni Muslim.[31]" - (en.wikipedia.org 28.01.2020)
- Entity Encoding
- siu
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