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Cherkess or Cherkes (; ) is a term derived from the Russian language name for the Circassians, a people of the North Caucasus. While the term was traditionally applied to all Circassians before Soviet times, it has since usually referred only to the Circassians living in northern Karachay-Cherkessia, a federal subject of Russia where they are indigenous and formed just under 12% of the population in 2010. These Circassians are mostly Besleney Kabardians who speak the Cherkess, i.e. Circassian, language. They also inhabit the villages of Khodz, Blechepsin, Koshekhabl, and Ulyap in nearby Adygeya.
The Cherkess generally call themselves Adyge (Адыгэ) as do most Circassians. The name of the Cherkess was given to Cherkessk, formerly called Batalpashinskaya, the capital of Karachay-Cherkessia.
Usage examples of "cherkess".
And young Hakat is of the Cherkess, a people renowned for their ingrained honesty.
To my Cherkess students, it seems, I stand in loco frateri as a surrogate elder.
Persians, Khazars, Mysians, Cherkesses, everything else you ever heard of, and some you probably never did.
He was of the comeliness for which all the Cherkesses are noted, male as well as female, and he was trying now to exhibit the good manners Artemidorus taught all his charges.