#circassians — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #circassians, aggregated by home.social.
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For tiny Circassian community, food and language sustain ancient heritage amid conflict https://www.byteseu.com/1994500/ #20232024IsraelHezbollahConflict #2026IsraelHezbollahConflict #Circassians #Conflicts #Israel #KfarKama
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/99799/ For tiny Circassian community, food and language sustain ancient heritage amid conflict #20232024IsraelHezbollahConflict #2026IsraelHezbollahConflict #Circassians #Israel #KfarKama
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"Circassian culture was often exoticised within Russia ... we carried a kind of internalised self-doubt, shaped by Soviet and post-Soviet attitudes that framed local culture as backward"
A story true of every local culture and independent nation that Moscow tried to colonise
#Circassians #Caucasus #imperialism #colonisation #genocide #soviethistory #histodons #ussr #soviet #music #russia #russiaukrainewar #ukrainewar #musichistory #religion #islam #ethnography #punk
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"Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million #NorthCaucasianMuslims fled to the #OttomanEmpire. Some, like the #Circassians, ran from a Russian perpetrated genocide. Others, like #Chechens, #Dagestanis, and others the violence of #RussianColonization."
#EurasianKnot welcomes #VladimirHamedTroyansky to discuss his book #EmpireOfRefugees
https://www.euraknot.org/muslim-refugees-in-the-ottoman-empire/
#OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #colonialViolence #NorthCaucasus #CircassianGenocide #books @histodons @bookstodon @russia
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"Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million #NorthCaucasianMuslims fled to the #OttomanEmpire. Some, like the #Circassians, ran from a Russian perpetrated genocide. Others, like #Chechens, #Dagestanis, and others the violence of #RussianColonization."
#EurasianKnot welcomes #VladimirHamedTroyansky to discuss his book #EmpireOfRefugees
https://www.euraknot.org/muslim-refugees-in-the-ottoman-empire/
#OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #colonialViolence #NorthCaucasus #CircassianGenocide #books @histodons @bookstodon @russia
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"Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million #NorthCaucasianMuslims fled to the #OttomanEmpire. Some, like the #Circassians, ran from a Russian perpetrated genocide. Others, like #Chechens, #Dagestanis, and others the violence of #RussianColonization."
#EurasianKnot welcomes #VladimirHamedTroyansky to discuss his book #EmpireOfRefugees
https://www.euraknot.org/muslim-refugees-in-the-ottoman-empire/
#OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #colonialViolence #NorthCaucasus #CircassianGenocide #books @histodons @bookstodon @russia
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"Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million #NorthCaucasianMuslims fled to the #OttomanEmpire. Some, like the #Circassians, ran from a Russian perpetrated genocide. Others, like #Chechens, #Dagestanis, and others the violence of #RussianColonization."
#EurasianKnot welcomes #VladimirHamedTroyansky to discuss his book #EmpireOfRefugees
https://www.euraknot.org/muslim-refugees-in-the-ottoman-empire/
#OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #colonialViolence #NorthCaucasus #CircassianGenocide #books @histodons @bookstodon @russia
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"Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million #NorthCaucasianMuslims fled to the #OttomanEmpire. Some, like the #Circassians, ran from a Russian perpetrated genocide. Others, like #Chechens, #Dagestanis, and others the violence of #RussianColonization."
#EurasianKnot welcomes #VladimirHamedTroyansky to discuss his book #EmpireOfRefugees
https://www.euraknot.org/muslim-refugees-in-the-ottoman-empire/
#OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #colonialViolence #NorthCaucasus #CircassianGenocide #books @histodons @bookstodon @russia
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"Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million #NorthCaucasianMuslims fled to the #OttomanEmpire. Some, like the #Circassians, ran from a Russian perpetrated genocide. Others, like #Chechens, #Dagestanis, and others the violence of #RussianColonization."
#EurasianKnot welcomes #VladimirHamedTroyansky to discuss his book #EmpireOfRefugees
https://www.euraknot.org/muslim-refugees-in-the-ottoman-empire/
#OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #colonialViolence #NorthCaucasus #CircassianGenocide #books @histodons @bookstodon @russia
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Polish newspaper Przyjaciel Ludu - Feb 13th, 1847.
A poem titled “Śpiew górali Kaukaskich - The Song of the Caucasian Highlanders”.
The corresponding article mentions that the Polish exiles in the Caucasus heard this song from the #Circassians.
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Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims And The Late Ottoman State #Circassians #Jordan @jordan
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I have a new article in Kritika! It is on the attempted return of the North Caucasian diaspora in the Middle East to its homeland within the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation since the 1960s. https://doi.org/10.1353/kri.2023.a904386
The article looks at the relationship between North Caucasians—especially #Circassians—in #Turkey, #Jordan, and #Syria with the #Caucasus. It focuses on (a) #Soviet propaganda tours for the diaspora and (b) diasporic efforts to secure the right of return to #Russia.
I show that the Soviet government's and the Circassian diaspora's goals did not align. The USSR wanted to extend its soft power in the Middle East through the diaspora, while Circassians wanted a pathway to repatriation. Yet these contacts in the 1960s–80s paved the way for transnational Circassian activism and repatriation demands after 1991. The article is based on archival research in Nalchik & fieldwork in Jordan and Istanbul.
Feel free to send me a message for a full pdf of the article!
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CW: Circassian genocide
#TIL about the #genocide of the #Circassians by Imperial #Russia in the 19th century. I knew about the Circassian diaspora and the long history of being a powerful people in the Middle-East, but I never knew it was a real genocide.
:wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide
The number of deaths varied between 400.000 and 2.000.000. The survivors of the genocide where mostly expelled from their homelands in the Northwestern Caucasus, resulting in the Circassian #diaspora. Nowadays only ~14% are still living in their original homeland. The rest of the ~5,3 million people are mostly living in Turkey (2.5m), Syria (250k) and Jordan (100k).
:wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_diaspora
The majority of the Circassians are practising #Sunni #Islam (only converted after 1717). Religious minorities are Christians and people practising #Khabzeism, the original 'pagan' religion of the Circassians (~85k). Besides and mixed with these religions Circassians (almost) all over the world follow the #Xabze. The worldview and moral code of Circassian society.
The remaining population in the #Caucasus speak one of the #Circassian languages, belonging to the Northwestern Caucasian language family. The diaspora is bilingual or only speak the language of the country of residence.
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CW: Circassian genocide
#TIL about the #genocide of the #Circassians by Imperial #Russia in the 19th century. I knew about the Circassian diaspora and the long history of being a powerful people in the Middle-East, but I never knew it was a real genocide.
:wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide
The number of deaths varied between 400.000 and 2.000.000. The survivors of the genocide where mostly expelled from their homelands in the Northwestern Caucasus, resulting in the Circassian #diaspora. Nowadays only ~14% are still living in their original homeland. The rest of the ~5,3 million people are mostly living in Turkey (2.5m), Syria (250k) and Jordan (100k).
:wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_diaspora
The majority of the Circassians are practising #Sunni #Islam (only converted after 1717). Religious minorities are Christians and people practising #Khabzeism, the original 'pagan' religion of the Circassians (~85k). Besides and mixed with these religions Circassians (almost) all over the world follow the #Xabze. The worldview and moral code of Circassian society.
The remaining population in the #Caucasus speak one of the #Circassian languages, belonging to the Northwestern Caucasian language family. The diaspora is bilingual or only speak the language of the country of residence.
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CW: Circassian genocide
#TIL about the #genocide of the #Circassians by Imperial #Russia in the 19th century. I knew about the Circassian diaspora and the long history of being a powerful people in the Middle-East, but I never knew it was a real genocide.
:wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide
The number of deaths varied between 400.000 and 2.000.000. The survivors of the genocide where mostly expelled from their homelands in the Northwestern Caucasus, resulting in the Circassian #diaspora. Nowadays only ~14% are still living in their original homeland. The rest of the ~5,3 million people are mostly living in Turkey (2.5m), Syria (250k) and Jordan (100k).
:wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_diaspora
The majority of the Circassians are practising #Sunni #Islam (only converted after 1717). Religious minorities are Christians and people practising #Khabzeism, the original 'pagan' religion of the Circassians (~85k). Besides and mixed with these religions Circassians (almost) all over the world follow the #Xabze. The worldview and moral code of Circassian society.
The remaining population in the #Caucasus speak one of the #Circassian languages, belonging to the Northwestern Caucasian language family. The diaspora is bilingual or only speak the language of the country of residence.
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CW: Circassian genocide
#TIL about the #genocide of the #Circassians by Imperial #Russia in the 19th century. I knew about the Circassian diaspora and the long history of being a powerful people in the Middle-East, but I never knew it was a real genocide.
:wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide
The number of deaths varied between 400.000 and 2.000.000. The survivors of the genocide where mostly expelled from their homelands in the Northwestern Caucasus, resulting in the Circassian #diaspora. Nowadays only ~14% are still living in their original homeland. The rest of the ~5,3 million people are mostly living in Turkey (2.5m), Syria (250k) and Jordan (100k).
:wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_diaspora
The majority of the Circassians are practising #Sunni #Islam (only converted after 1717). Religious minorities are Christians and people practising #Khabzeism, the original 'pagan' religion of the Circassians (~85k). Besides and mixed with these religions Circassians (almost) all over the world follow the #Xabze. The worldview and moral code of Circassian society.
The remaining population in the #Caucasus speak one of the #Circassian languages, belonging to the Northwestern Caucasian language family. The diaspora is bilingual or only speak the language of the country of residence.