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The Circassians 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. The term Circassian includes the Adyghe (Circassian: Адыгэ Adyge) and Kabardian people.The Adyghe mainly speak the Adyghe language a Northwest Caucasian language with numerous dialects.

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language
Arabic language, Hebrew language, Russian language, Turkish language, Circassian language
population place
Germany, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, United States
related
Abazins, Abkhaz people
religion
Shia Islam, Sunni Islam, Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, Adyghe Habze
total population
4

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