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The Circassian Genocide happened between 1763 To 21, May, 1864 ended with the fall of Circassia after fierce fighting, and heroic defensive fight that Circassians took against the Russian invading army which lead to the total occupation of the North Caucasus. The fall of Circassia and other parts of the North Caucasus Region in the hands of the tyrants and savage Tsarist Russian armies that committed genocide and ethnic-cleansing against all invaded nations and amongst them the Circassian nation which was considered the biggest genocide of the nineteenth century, which was forgotten by later history. Millions were terrorized, massacred, displaced, or deported to a Diaspora that is as wide and as large as more than forty countries of the world.

This genocide was known to be the blueprint for future genocides (armenian, holocaust) and one of the most brutal.

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Sources:
www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Circassia.htm
www.circassianworld.com
www.adygaunion.us/en/index.php

CIRCASSIAN - Circassian pronunciation: Common mistakes & fixes in 2023

Circassian refers to the indigenous people of the Circassia region, which is located in the northern Caucasus.
This ethnic group has a rich history and culture, and are known for their distinct language, traditions, and customs.
Circassians have a diverse ancestry and have faced challenges throughout history, including displacement and political unrest.
Nowadays, they can be found in different parts of the world due to diaspora communities formed by historical events.

Pronunciation:
To pronounce 'Circassian', you can say ['sur-kay-shuhn'] or ['sur-kas-ee-uhn'] with emphasis on the first syllable.
Alternatively, you can break it down as ['sur'] (rhymes with 'see') + ['kay'] (rhymes with 'way') + ['shuhn'] (rhymes with 'sun').

Test yourself by speaking the following examples:
1. Circassian people have a unique and fascinating history
2. The Circassian language is an important part of their cultural heritage
3. Many Circassians living abroad strive to preserve their traditions and identity
4. Circassian cuisine is known for its delicious flavors and use of local ingredients
5. Circassian dance is a vibrant and energetic form of artistic expression

Last updated: September, 2023

It's time to finally look at some languages again and I have to say, this region has been the most challenging to prepare so far. There is such a wealth of languages in the Cacausus mountains, with some that we've talked about before, and some isolate and native to this region alone. Get comfy and let's slowly work our way through the map 💖 Before we start, though, thank you so much for all the well-wishes last week!

Content note: There's mention of the Armenian and the Circassian genocide.

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Sources:
Map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/....wiki/File:Caucasus-e
Glück/Rödel (ed.): Metzler Lexikon Sprache, 5th edition.
Hölzel Universalatlas.

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Sommersonnenwende 2015 auf dem Tempelhofer Feld (Flugfeld Berlin-Tempelhof)
Summer Solstice 2015 in the Tempelhofer Park (Berlin)
Tanz: The Circassian Circle

Musik: Abu Chiubhl' - Tannas
Dancers of some Ceilidh Dance Groups in Berlin
Tänzer/innen verschiedener Berliner Ceilidh Dance - Gruppen

Circassian Short Film “Land of the Narts”

Scene from the short film “Land of the Narts” [“Нарт Хэку”] (2015).
In Circassian (and some Russian), with English subtitles (By Centre for Circassian Studies).

Produced by Beslan Zeik’werey. Directed by Oleg Hemiqwe.

Actors:
Modern Russified Circassian: Vladimir Biytoqw.
Ancient Nart: Ahmed Hemirze.

The film laments the loss of the Circassian language and traditional norms of conduct in urban Kabarda (Eastern Circassia), the only place on Earth where the Circassians form a majority.

Watch the whole film: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kugnxRouVcg]

Matthew Light voices his concerns on television in relation to the Sochi 2014 Olympics. His concerns include the impact on the local population, corruption, human rights abuse and the Circassian issue.

The Sochi region, where the 2014 Winter Olympics will be held, was the center that the parliament of independent and free Circassia was gathering until 1864. After the Russian invasion it was not only the Circassians removed from their land but also all their cultural heritage and even their graves were completely destroyed. Today in the state museums of Sochi there is nothing displayed related to Circassians, the autochthonous people of that land for thousands of years. The real ancient history has now been re-written by Russia and hidden from the public.

The public does not know that millions of Circassians were massacred around and in the site of Sochi. Instead Russia laughs at the public for their lack of knowledge with the plight of Circassians. They hope that most of humanity forgets about this indigenous people. But people are beginning to speak out...

Russia's invasion resulted in millions of deaths and the forcible expulsion of those left alive. Currently over 90% of Circassians now live outside of their homeland. Russia has strict repatriation laws that will not allow any Circassian descendants back. This policy has only been enforced on Circassians but does not apply to other ethnic groups. Russia has silenced and oppressed any outspoken individuals who feel this is unfair. Journalists and citizens have been mysteriously assassinated with no formal investigation for speaking about this issue.

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Circassian beauties


00:03:27 1 Literary allusions
00:05:38 2 Circassian features
00:12:20 2.1 Pseudoscientific explanations for the extreme white skin
00:14:14 3 Pseudoscientific racialist theories
00:18:16 4 Advertising of beauty products
00:21:11 5 Nineteenth-century sideshow attraction
00:23:47 6 In popular culture
00:24:14 7 See also



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SUMMARY
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Circassian beauties is a phrase used to refer to an idealized image of the women of the Circassian people of the Northwestern Caucasus. A fairly extensive literary history suggests that Circassian women were thought to be unusually beautiful, spirited, and elegant, and as such were desirable as concubines.
This reputation dates back to the Late Middle Ages, when the Circassian coast was frequented by traders from Genoa, and the founder of the Medici dynasty, Cosimo de' Medici, had an illegitimate son from a Circassian slave. During the Ottoman Empire and Persian Safavid and Qajar dynasties, Circassian women living as slaves in the Sultan's Imperial Harem and Shah's harems started to build their reputation as extremely beautiful and genteel, which then became a common trope in Western Orientalism.As a result of this reputation, in Europe and America Circassians were often characterised as ideals of feminine beauty in poetry and art. Cosmetic products were advertised, from the 18th century on, using the word "Circassian" in the title, or claiming that the product was based on substances used by the women of Circassia.
In consequence, most wives of several Ottoman Sultans were ethnic Circassians converted to Islam, e.g. Valide Sultans (Empress mothers), including Perestü Valide Sultan, Pertevniyal Valide Sultan, Şevkefza Valide Sultan, Tirimüjgan Valide Sultan, Nükhetseza Başhanımefendi, other important Hatuns (Ladies) and Sultans like Şemsiruhsar Hatun and Saçbağlı Sultan, Haseki sultans (chief consorts) such as Mahidevran Haseki Sultan, Hümaşah Haseki Sultan, Hatice Muazzez Haseki Sultan, and Ayşe Haseki Sultan besides numerous Başkadınefendis (most senior consorts), including Bedrifelek I, Bidar II, Kamures I, and Servetseza I as well as Kadınefendis (senior consorts) such as Bezmara VI, Düzdidil III, Hayranıdil II, Meyliservet IV, Mihrengiz II, Neşerek III, Nurefsun II, Reftaridil II, Şayan III, amongst many others, or İkbals (honoured lady consorts), most notable of them being Cevherriz II, Ceylanyar II, Dilfirib I, Nalanıdil III, and Nergis IV in addition to Gözdes (favourite lady consorts), including Dürdane I, Hüsnicenan III, Safderun IV, amongst others. The "golden age" of the Circassian beauty may be considered to be between the 1770s, when the Russian Empire seized the Crimean Khanate and cut off their slave trade in Eastern European women, which increased the demand for Circassian women in Near Eastern harems; and the 1860s, when the Russians destroyed Circassia itself.
In the 1860s the showman P. T. Barnum exhibited women who he claimed were Circassian beauties. They wore a distinctive curly, big hair style, which had no precedent in earlier portrayals of Circassians, but which was soon copied by other female performers in the United States, who became known as "moss-haired girls". This hair style was a sort of a exhibit's trademark and was achieved by washing the hair of women in beer, drying it and then teasing it. It is not clear why Barnum chose this hairstyle. It may have been a reference to the Circassian fur hat, rather than the hair.
There were also several classical Turkish music pieces and poems that praise the beauty of the "Lepiska Saçlı Çerkes" (Straight, flaxen-haired Circassian; "lepiska" refers to long blonde hair which is soft and straight, as if flatironed).

ID:
Meskipun nyanyian / kutukan Sirkasia ini ditulis dengan Alexander II dalam pikiran, itu diarahkan ke perintah Rusia dalam Perang Rusia-Sirkasia secara keseluruhan, dan, Tsar Alexander II digunakan, sebagai metafora untuk para jenderal Rusia dan Tsar sebelumnya.

Footage Link:
Russo - Circassian War (Imam Shamil) by edhaje
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4H6g_jAzMw

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Disclaimer:
Video ini dibuat untuk edukasi sejarah saja,tidak mereprensentasikan atau mendukung suatu agama,ideologi dan suatu negara.

EN:
Although this Circassian chant/curse was written with Alexander II in mind, it is directed towards the Russian command in the Russo-Circassian War as a whole, and the Tsar Alexander is used as a metaphor for Russian generals and the previous Tsars.

Footage Link:
Russo - Circassian War (Imam Shamil) by edhaje
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4H6g_jAzMw

Discord Link: https://discord.gg/XvvVyFvXmP

Disclaimer:
Video ini dibuat untuk edukasi sejarah saja,tidak mereprensentasikan atau mendukung suatu agama,ideologi dan suatu negara.

Disclaimer:
This video is made for historical education only, does not represent or support any religion, ideology or country.

IB: @Patlichan

Foundation for Endangered Languages, 25th Annual Conference - FEL XXV (2021)
Main Theme: Endangered Languages and Diaspora
Special Theme: The State and Study of Arbëresh as an Endangered Diaspora Language
2021, December 16-19 | Tirana, Albania
Venue: The Center for Research and Publication on Arbëresh (QSPA) in collaboration with the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Tirana

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Kamyl - Circassian (Adyghe) native flute.
Circassians are the folk of Caucasus with ancient history and rich musical culture.
Sound creation is complicated, video tutor is included. Lips and tooth are in use.
Instrument has rich tembre. Scale range consist about two octaves.
Example of kamyl scale in key of A:
A' B-flat' C D
A B-flat c d
e f g a
b-flat c' d'
Related flutes: Circassian kamyl, Abkhazian acharpyn, Karachai sybyzgy, Ossetian uadyndz, Armenian blul, Persian ney, Turkish ney, kaval, Georgian chaban salamuri

Камыль, или по-адыгски къамыл.
Традиционная флейта адыгов (черкесов). Относится к классу открытых длинномензурных флейт.
Эта флейта обладает насыщенным тембром. В звукоизвлечении участвуют язык, зубы и губа.
Имеет более чем полторы октавы диатонического диапазона. Звукоряд основан на чередовании фригийского тетрахорда.
Строй инструмента в Ля:
A' Bb' C D
A Bb c d
e f g a
bb c' d'
Традиция игры на камыле успешно сохранилась до наших дней на территории Адыгеи. В наши дни инструмент переживает активное возрождение среди черкесской молодежи.
Общепринятым стандартом сегодня является инструмент из металла. С XIX века, судя по этнографическим описаниям, камыль изготовлялся из доступных музыкантам металлических трубок: медь, латунь, ружейные стволы.
Родственные инструменты: карачаево-балкарский сыбызгъы, абхазский ачарпын, осетинский уадындз, башкирский курай, персидский ней, турецкий кавал, грузинский пастуший саламури.

May 21, 1864; It is the symbolic date of systematic genocide carried out to Circassians. During this genocide by Tsarist Russia, hundreds of thousands of Circassians died, while ninety percent of the surviving Circassian population was exiled to the Ottoman Empire.
Today, we are speaking as a child of a generation who survived from the Circassian Genocide:
RECOGNIZE THE GENOCIDE!
Today we are angry as a Circassian.
Because; despite the Circassian Genocide took over 155 years, there is not a single step taken by Russia to compensate for the injustice we have suffered.
Russia still continues to implement its colonial policies in the Caucasus.
Although the regime changes, the Russian state is still acting with the motto “A Circassia without the Circassians, a Caucasus without the Caucasians”.
Against these policies, we raise our voice wherever Circassians live:
MAY21 CONTINUE!
Today we are angry and we have a word to the state of Russia, who ignores us for even the most basic demands in our homeland.
Despite all the colonial policies you have implemented and manipulation attempts
WE DID NOT EXTINCT, WE WILL NOT BE!
We are standing against your attempts to distort the history and ignore the Circassian people and the the tragedy we had:
21 MAY IS THE DAY OF THE DEFIANCE!
We speak to the peoples of the world and the conscientious people of Russia; don't take part in your state's crimes
RECOGNIZE THE GENOCIDE!
Despite all our suffering, trauma and human rights violations, we are not aiming to revive historical hostilities. We raise our demand for justice.
IF THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS NO PEACE!
We declare that we will never forget the Circassian Genocide and the perpetrator of this genocide.
RECOGNIZE THE MAY21 CIRCASSIAN GENOCIDE!

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Join our FREE Circassian Online classes and learn how to read, pronounce, and write in Circassian Language! We offer Wednesday and Saturday Circassian Online Classes for FREE via ZOOM. If you want to join us visit our Facebook group page, join the group and send us a message.

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To know more about the Circassian Language please visit our website: http://www.nassip.org/

For effective learning of the Circassian Language, we are using the Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling or TPRS. It's a fun and stress-free way of learning, it focuses on the most useful vocabulary and uses gestures, visual imagery, spatial memory aid, body language, and voice inflection. PLUS There are no memorized dialogues or grammar worksheets with the TPRS method.

Join us as we uncover the tragic story of the Circassian Genocide of 1864 - a dark chapter in Russian history that has been overlooked for too long. Through in-depth research and powerful testimonies, we shed light on the atrocities committed against the Circassian people and the lasting impact of this horrific event. Don't miss this important reminder of the importance of acknowledging the truth of our shared history.

The 28th of September is the Circassian National traditional Costume day.
In this day Circassian around the world commemorate the traditional Costume to preserve the Circassian identity.

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Circassian Genocide Memorial Day - Reihaniya 2018

АДЫГЭ ПСОМИ ХУЭГЪЭЗАУЭ
DEDICATED TO ALL CIRCASSIANS

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Къэзыгупсысамрэ, зыгъэпсамрэ:
Director and scenario by:
Bisher Eroko Ерокъуэ Бишер

Cameraman: Тезыхар:
Bisher Eroko Ерокъуэ Бишер

Editing: Зыхэзыгъэувар:
Mikhail Tau Тау Мэчрэил

Music: Пшыналъэр:
Hagauj ДжэгуакIуэ гуп Хьэгъэудж

Actor: Джэгуар:
Robert Saralp Сэральп Роберт

Circassian horse: Адыгэш:
Batraz Бэтрэз

Assistants: Къуэдзэхэр:
Ratmir Zhantemiroko Жантемырокъуэ Ратмир
Ibragim Beshkur БешкIур Ибрахьим
Марат Mastafa Мастафэ Марат

ФIЫЩIЭ ЯХУДОЩI КЪЫДДЭIПЫКЪУАХЭУ:
Thank you for your help:
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Felix Nakua Накуэ Феликс
Arsen Altud Алътуд Арсен
Aslan Karaf КIэрэф Аслъэн
Murat Shaujan Щоджэн Мурат
Aslan Naka НакIэ Аслъэн
Ratmir Brai Брай Ратмир
Mohammad Nagour Нэгур Мухьэмэд
Anastasiya Bondar Бондэр Анэстэсия
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Circassians are the native people of the north west Caucasus ( Circassia )

Jonty Yamisha of the Nassip Foundation discusses his approach to Circassian language preservation. Sponsored by the Smithsonian and CUNY in partnership with the International Centre for Language Revitalization, AUT University and the Endangered Language Alliance.

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