The Circassians refer to themselves as Adyghe.
Many of whom were exiled in the course of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century,Įspecially after the Russo-Circassian War in 1864, having been exiled by Russia to lands of the Ottoman Empire, The Circassians also known by their endonym Adyghe are a Northwest Caucasian ethnic group native to Circassia, Circassian Clothes of 19th century male and female