The Trail Of Tears

The Circassians' (Adyghes') mass exodus from the motherland in the mid 1860s being immorally exiled from their homes in Cherkassia (the northwestern region of the Caucasus) to a foreign land Istanbul (the Ottoman Empire then). Courtesy of the documentary DVD Cherkessia produced in the Adyghea Republic in 2007.

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• circassians
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• bnk
• adigha
• caucasus
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• nalchik
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• cherkesk
• pshena
• адыгэ
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[diegolexxx]

what the name the song ?

bethoveen ?

[bnkhcc]

@diegolexxx Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem

[Ridade1020]

Bnkhcc, you made a very good musical choice,I think it is Mozart`s beautiful "Requiem", right? Thank you very much, it fits perfectly to this sad topic, that still moves the nowadays living generations of Circassians and surely also those coming in future...

[bnkhcc]

you're right ridade -- thank you for noticing

[bnkhcc]

This is by far among humanity's darkest periods ever. How can one nation incur this kind of catastrophic event to another nation?

[janimbey]

Genetic nightmare!!! god bless circassian,abaza people and all others

[Berger511]

The change of names was enforced by Kamal Attaturk in 1930's and not by Ottomans.

The Ottomans could carless what their subjects called themselves or who they believed in. Millions displaced Ottoman subjects that were kicked out of their home in Therace, Macedonia, Albenia, and Serbia changed their names and adapted to their new envrionment. Lets not be too critical of Ottomans.

[breffnipark]

very interesting !

[FacckUtube]

@bnkhcc how? becos the advisors of the kings where fear mongers, sourcerers who did the work of satan. This happened to all ancient tribes, they were killed and driven from their lands Watch Apocalypto and 10,000 BC and you'll understand.

[charliegyrl]

the Russians put to death, exiled, raped 1.5 million Adyghes. The least they can do is apologise. At least Islamic and other countries took them in unlike they were to do with the Jews during ww2. Both were Christian wars against Judaism and Islam.

[bolgarbagatur]

adigeshapsug you are right because in mi country otoman sultans use cherkes to kill children and woman but this is normal because turks are stuped and ever use some smart some brave or any best than them

[Berger511]

There is some truth in what you say, but then the Ottomans sent millions of their subjects to war regardless of their ethnic origins. Russianization under the Soviet did the greatest damage. 95% of Causcasins speak Russian better than their own language,