What's the difference between adyghe and circassian?
Adyghe
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Circassian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Circassia.
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(1) Formed in October 2015, the SDF, an alliance of Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian, Armenian, Turkmen and Circassian militias, has seized swaths of territory in north and north-east Syria from Isis.
(2) Indeed, Sochi was the last capital of independent Circassia from 1861 to 1864, and is named after the Circassian ethnic group Shache, who lived there until 1864.
(3) Sochi was the site of the war's last battles, and the port from which most of the Circassians were deported to the Ottoman empire.
(4) Sochi is of great significance to the Circassian people, who suffered genocide at the hands of the Russian Empire in 1864 The Sochi Games mark the 150th anniversary of the defeat of the Circassians in 1864 at the hands of Tsar Aleksandr II, after they fought for 101 years in the brutal and bloody Russian-Caucasus war.