The Circassian People directory connects the global Adyghe diaspora — search member profiles, trace family connections across tribes and villages, and reconnect with relatives scattered by the 1864 exile from the Caucasus to Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Europe, and the Americas.
Member Profiles & Public Pages
Every CircassianWeb member can build a public Circassian profile with their name, surname, tribe (Adyghe, Kabardian, Shapsugh, Bzhedugh, Abdzakh, Besleney, Temirgoy, Hatuqwai, Natukhai, Ubykh, Yegeruqwai, Mamkhegh), ancestral village, current country, and a short biography. Profiles appear in community search so other Circassians can find and message you.
Family Connections & Surnames
Profiles link to family trees so you can see parents, siblings, children, and extended kin in one view. The 8,000+ Adyghe surname database lets you look up the meaning and tribal origin of a Circassian last name and discover other members who share it — the fastest way to find lost cousins and rebuild family branches broken by exile.
Tribes & Ancestral Villages
Browse Circassian people by tribe and by ancestral village in historic Circassia (Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar Krai) and in diaspora villages of Türkiye, the Levant, and the Balkans. Village pages collect everyone who traces their roots to the same place, making it easy to reconnect with people of shared heritage.
Community Search
Search across all public Circassian profiles by name, surname, tribe, village, or country. Cross-script search supports Cyrillic, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew spellings of Circassian names, so a query like "Shogenov", "Шогенов", or "شوقنوف" all return the same person.
Privacy & Visibility Controls
You decide what the public sees. Profile visibility is opt-in: members can mark their profile public, members-only, or fully private, and can separately control whether they appear in matchmaking, family tree search, or contact requests. Sensitive details like phone numbers, exact birth dates, and private family tree branches are never exposed without explicit consent.