Circassian people

The alleged Circassian genocide ostensibly happened during the Russo-Circassian War, conducted in Circassia (present day Russia's Krasnodar Krai, republics of Adygea and Karachay-Cherkessia), the northwestern part of the Caucasus. The war ended in 1864 with annexation of these lands to the Russian Empire. During the 1860s much of the Circassian population was expelled from their lands. Historians site figures as large as 500,000 and greater. A large fraction of them died in transit.This expulsion and other actions of the Russian military has given rise to a movement for international recognition of the alleged genocide.