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1763 1864 |
The Circassians, residents of the northwest Caucasus, fought against the Russians in the Russian-Circassian War only succumbing to a scorched earth campaign initiated in 1862 under General Yevdokimov. Afterwards, large numbers of Circassians fled and were deported to the Ottoman Empire, others were resettled in Russia far from their home territories. Links: Turkey, Russia, Circassia 
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1864 Jun 2 |
The Circassian-Russian war, begun in 1763, ended. It left about a million Circassians of the northwest Caucasus dead. Historians in general agree on the figure of some 500,000 inhabitants of the highland Caucasus being deported by Russia in the 1860s. A large fraction of them died in transit from disease. Links: Russia, Circassia
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1864 |
Circassian fighters in Sochi surrendered to the czarist forces. Circassians were widely dispersed following Russian expulsions. Links: Russia, Circassia
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1992 Oct 7 |
The Ubykh language of the north-eastern Caucasus died out when Tevfik Esenc (b.1904), a Circassian exile in Turkey, died. Links: Turkey, Language, Circassia
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2010 |
Oliver Bullough authored “Let Our Fame Be Great: Journey Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus.” Links: Russia, Books, Circassia, Balkaria
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2012 May 21 |
Circassians gathered in 40-odd countries to commemorate an 1864 massacre that left about a million dead. Links: Circassia
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