Evoking the Circassians' plight, Umarov said in a video last year: "We know that on the bones of our ancestors, on the bones of many, many Muslims who died and are buried on our territory along ...

Sochi, the site for the 2014 winter Olympics, just happens to be where the Russians dispossessed an entire nation exactly 150 years earlier. the survivors' descendants say it was genocide—and now ...

Some Circassians are unhappy about how the 2014 Olympic Games opening ceremony failed to mention their history. Ad Feedback. World. Africa ... Bogus says those requests were denied, ...

The Circassians, indigenous to the northwest Caucasus, were a mosaic of tribes unified by language, customs, and a martial ethos celebrated in their oral traditions.

Similar scenes would unfold when the Circassians were expelled from the Russian Empire a decade later. When Alexander II came to the throne in 1855, ...

Mourning their genocide, Israeli Circassians hold fast to multilayered identity Over 160 years after their people were expelled from the Caucasus, residents of Kfar Kama maintain their language ...

There were those who joined IS because they believed in the caliphate, and some who did it for status or material gain. ... Christians, Assyrians, Kurds, Circassians, and Yazidis.

Dr. Orhan Bersiequ, a Circassian from Jordan who specializes in North Caucasian history, welcomes strong relations between Circassians and Georgians and among the peoples of the Caucasus generally.

Over 160 years after their people were expelled from the Caucasus, residents of Kfar Kama maintain their language and culture while embracing life as Israelis and Muslims The post Mourning their ...