Add to ORKGMap of the historic Russian region of Circassia encompassing roughly the area between the Black Sea, the Kuban River, and the Caucasus, now largely the Krasnodar Territory of South Eastern European Russia. The Circassians are a Muslim people, whose Russian name is Cherkess and whose native name is Adygey. In 1829 the Ottoman Turks were forced to cede Circassia to Russia. At this time the Circassians occupied almost the entire area between the main Caucasian range, the Kuban River, and the Black Sea. In the many Russo-Turkish wars in the first half of the 19th century, the Circassians bitterly fought the Russians. After the Russian conquest of the area, about 400,000 Circassians migrated to Turkey between 1861-64. Relief is shown by hachures...