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The Shapsug ( , , , , ), also known as the Shapsugh, are one of the twelve tribes of the Circassian people. In Russia, the remaining Shapsug population mainly live in the Tuapsinsky District ( Tuapse) of Krasnodar Krai, Lazarevsky City District of Sochi, and in the Republic of Adygea, which were a small part of historical Circassia. However, the major Shapsug communities are found in Turkey, Israel ( Kfar Kama), Jordan ( Amman, Naour, Marj Al-hamam, Wadi Al Seer), Iraq, Syria, Western Europe, and the United States of America. The first Circassians to settle in Amman were from the Shapsug tribe, and as a result the Shapsug's neighbourhood is considered the oldest neighbourhood in the Capital Amman and was the down town of it; however, other Circassians from the Kabardian, Abadzekh, and Bzhedug tribes also settled in Amman afterwards.
The Shapsug speak a sub-dialect of the Adyghe language. According to some indirect data, there were over four thousand Shapsug in Russia in 1926, but the Shapsug people were not enumerated as a separate group in Russian Censuses until 2002, when the population was recorded at 3,231. The Shapsug who live in the Adyghe Republic (mainly in District of Takhtamukaysky and District of Teuchezksky) were enumerated as an Adyghe in general instead of Shapsug in particular, as they are an Adyghe (Circassian) tribe, rather than a separate ethnic group.
In District of Takhtamukaysky a reservoir which was built in 1952 was named after the Shapsug tribe since the area was inhabited by this tribe for thousands of years and was considered to be part of historical Shapsugia, a region in historical Circassia. Since the early 19th century, the Shapsug are primarily Sunni Muslims (Hanafi).
Historically, the Shapsug tribe used to make up one of the biggest groups of the Black Sea Adyghe (Причерноморские адыги). They inhabited the region between the Dzhubga (in means "Winds" or "The Valley of Winds") River and Shakhe Rivers (the so-called Maly Shapsug, or Little Shapsug) and high-altitude mountainous areas of the northern slopes of the Caucasus Range along the Antkhir, Abin, Afips, Bakan, Ships, and other rivers (Bolshoy Shapsug, or Greater Shapsug).
Today, the Shapsug are the third most crowded Circassian tribe in the world, after the most crowded Kabardian and second most crowded Abzakh tribes. The Shapsug are the most crowded Circassian tribe in Israel, third most crowded in Turkey where the majority of them live, and the fifth most crowded one in Russia. In Jordan, after the Abzakh, the Shapsug and Kabardian tribes are the most crowded Adyghe tribes.