abbie-a-aaronson:apollossong:apollossong:Today is the Circassian day of mourning, a day to honor the

abbie-a-aaronson:apollossong:apollossong:Today is the Circassian day of mourning, a day to honor the memory of victims of the genocide committed by the Russian Empire against Adyghe people in XVII-XIX centuriesTo this day, Circassians still refuse to eat fish from the Black Sea, they believe it has fed on the corpses of their ancestors who drowned down with the plethora of ships that did not survive the mass exodus of Circassians fleeing the genocide.During the 1860s, roughly 250,000 Circassiansfound their way to the Balkans, where a small number of them still live (mostly in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Macedonia), but a large number of them were run off into Turkey - again by Russians - during the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1778).It is estimated that, were it not for the genocide, today’s population of Circassians would number around 30 million people. But it did happen, and so now the global Circassian population is estimated to count roughly 6 million people, most of whom live in Turkey. Only about 700,000 living within the borders of the Russian Federation.Today, less than half a million people speak Adyghe, and only around a million speak Kabardian (West and East Circassian, respectively). -- source link

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