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According to a 2021 study, Caucasian hunter-gatherer ancestry (CHG) significantly contributed to the genetic makeup of modern Caucasian populations but the proportion of CHG alleles are highest in modern peoples that live close to the archaeological sites in western Georgia, where the bones of CHG were discovered. The proportion gradually ...
The Caucasian War (1817–1864) was the bloodiest phase of the broader Russo-Caucasian conflict. [50] Imam Shamil , a Dagestani leader of Avar descent, became a central figure in the North Caucasian resistance when he proclaimed the Caucasian Imamate in 1834, [ 51 ] seeking to unify the region’s ethnic and religious groups, including the ...
Caucasian Kurds are ethnic Kurds which come from or live in the region of the Caucasus. The first Kurdish presence in the Caucasus region can be traced back to the middle of the 10th Century. [ 1 ] Some groups of Caucasian Kurds were deported to Central Asia in 1937, 1938, and 1944 by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin , with most of their ...
The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, [a] Europid, or Europoid) [2] is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. [3] [4] [5] The Caucasian race was historically regarded as a biological taxon which, depending on which of the historical race classifications was being used, usually included ancient and modern populations from all or parts of ...
The Abkhazians or Abkhazes [a] are a Northwest Caucasian ethnic group, mainly living in Abkhazia, a disputed region on the northeastern coast of the Black Sea.A large Abkhaz diaspora population resides in Turkey, the origins of which lie in the Caucasian War in the late 19th century.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. Northwest Caucasian ethnic group native to Circassia For other uses, see Circassian (disambiguation). Ethnic group Circassians Адыгэхэр (Adyghe) Circassian national flag Map of the Circassian diaspora Total population c. 5.3 million Regions with significant populations Turkey ...
Circassians is a broad ethnonym of the Turkic origin, which in Russia, Turkey and Persia used to be, and in the case of Turkey is now, applied to peoples of different ethnicities living on the North Eastern and Eastern shores of the Black Sea, and in the Northern Caucasus.
The terms Russians of the Caucasus; Caucasus Russians; Caucasian Russians; or Krasnodar Russians all refer to ethnic Russians living in the Caucasus.These terms are specific to a community of Russians because the North Caucasus is part of the Russian Federation, and Russians here are not outside of Russia, but they are in a part of Russia where as a whole Russians are an ethnic minority.