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Circassian diaspora

Circassians
Адыгэхэр (Adyghe)
Адыгэхэр (Kabardian)
Circassian flag
Map of the Circassian diaspora
Total population
c. 5.3 million
Regions with significant populations
Turkey Turkey2,000,000–3,000,000[1][2][3]
 Russia751,487[4]
Jordan Jordan250,000[5][3]
Syria Syria80,000–120,000[3][6][7][8][9]
Egypt Egypt50,000[citation needed]
Germany Germany40,000[3][10]
Libya Libya35,000[11]
Iraq Iraq34,000[12]
United States United States25,000[12][better source needed]
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia23,000[citation needed]
Iran Iran5,000–50,000[13]
Israel Israel4,000–5,000[14][15][16]
 Uzbekistan1,257[17]
 Ukraine1,001[18]
 Poland1,000[19][20][21]
 Netherlands500[22]
 Canada400[23]
 Belarus116[24]
 Afghanistan0[25]
Languages
Native:
West Circassian, East Circassian
Diaspora:
Turkish, Russian, Arabic, English, German, Persian, Hebrew
Religion
Majority: Sunni Islam[13]
Minority:
Christianity (mostly Eastern Orthodoxy, but also Catholicism),[26] Circassian paganism,[27] irreligion[28]
Related ethnic groups
Abazgi peoples (Abkhaz, Abazin), Chechens
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The Circassian diaspora are ethnic Circassian people around the world who live outside their homeland Circassia. The majority of the Circassians live in the diaspora, as their ancestors were settled during the resettlement of the Circassian population, especially during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. From 1763 to 1864, the Circassians fought against the Russian Empire in the Russian-Circassian War, finally succumbing to a scorched-earth genocide campaign initiated between 1862 and 1864.[29][30] Afterwards, large numbers of Circassians were exiled and deported to the Ottoman Empire and other nearby regions; others were resettled in Russia far from their home territories.[31][32] Circassians live in more than fifty countries, besides the Republic of Adygea.[33] Total population estimates differ: according to some sources, some two million live in Turkey, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq;[34] other sources say between one and four million live in Turkey alone.[35]

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  24. ^ "Национальный статистический комитет Республики Беларусь" (PDF) (in Belarusian). Statistics of Belarus. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2013.
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  34. ^ Richmond 172-73.
  35. ^ Stokes 152.

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