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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Tatars, Dungan people, Bashkirs, Kabarday, Adyghe people, Chechen people, Tats, Meskhetian Turks, Karachays, Nogais, Caucasian Avars, Azeris in Russia, Ingush people, Turks in Russia, Rutul people, Balkars, Kumukh, Lezgian people, Kumyks, Abazins, Circassians Majlis, Tsakhur people, Kuba Shaaban, Andi people, Lak people, Khwarshi people, Dargwa people, Ghoshieve Zamudin, Vachi, Tsez people, Archi people, Aghul people, Akhvakh people, Tabasaran people, Chamalal people, Botlikh people, Bezhta people, Godoberi people, Kazakhs in Russia, Avar-Andi-Dido peoples, Bagulal, Hinukh people, Karata people, Digor people, Ak Nogai. Excerpt: The Adyghe or Adygs (Adyghe: or Ad g, Arabic:, Jarkas/Sharkas), also often known as Circassians or Cherkess, are in origin a North Caucasian ethnic group who were displaced in the course of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century, especially after the Russian-Circassian War of 1862. Adyghe people mostly speak Adyghe and most practice Sunni Islam. There remain about half a million speakers of Adyghe, about a quarter of them in the Russian Federation, mostly in the Republic of Adygea, besides smaller numbers in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia. The majority of Adyghe today live in the Republic of Turkey (about 300,000 Adyghe speakers as of 2000). The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization estimates that there are as many as 3.7 million "ethnic Circassians" (meaning that only one in seven "ethnic Circassians" is a speaker of the Circassian language), of whom about 2 million live in the Republic of Turkey, 700,000 in the Russian Federation, about 150,000 in the Levant, and about 50,000 in western countries (Europe and USA). The Adyghe people call and distinguish themselves from other peoples of the Caucasus by the name Atteghei or Adyghe. The usual etymology ...
