The Adameys
["Čerkesses". ''E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913–1936''. Volume II. Leiden, 1987. p. 834. 9789004082656] or Adamians () were a
Circassian tribe
who were massacred in the
Circassian genocide. Today, they are assimilated into the
Chemguy
Temirgoy or Chemirgoy or Kemgui ( ady, КIэмгуй, '; or , '; or , '; russian: Темиргоевцы, ') are one of the twelve major Circassian tribes, representing one of the twelve stars on the green-and-gold Circassian flag. They lived be ...
tribe and reduced to a small family in the village of
Adamy.
History
The Adameys were first mentioned in 1667 in the reports of the Turkish traveler
Evliya Çelebi, who reported:
According to
Evliya Çelebi's report, this is how the tribe adopted its name:
Semyon Mikhailovich Bronevsky wrote in his 1823 description:
The majority of Ademeys were destroyed in the
Circassian genocide. The survivors were first exiled to the
Balkans in 1864 (see
Circassians in Bulgaria
The Circassians in Bulgaria (; ) were a large ethnic minority in the territory that constitutes modern Bulgaria. In the late 19th century, they numbered around 150,000. In 1992, 573 people in the country identified themselves as Circassian.
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), and later settled in Turkey where they assimilated into other tribes or
Turks.
Notable personalities
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Sultan Khan-Giray
Sultan Khan-Giray (full name: Kırım-Giray Mehmet Gireyev Khan-Giray; 1808–1842) was a Circassian politician and representative of the Circassian aristocracy, ethnographer, folklorist, art critic, author (of works that have contributed signif ...
References
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Circassian tribes
History of Kuban
Ethnic groups in Russia
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