Circassians

The Circassians (Circassian: Адыгэ, Adyge; Arabic: شركس‎, Sharkas; Turkish: Çerkes, Cherkes), or Adyghe people, are a North Caucasian ethnic group native to Circassia who were displaced in the course of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century, especially after the Russian–Circassian War of 1862.