Circassians - Gallery

Gallery

  • A group of Adyghe children in traditional clothes.

  • A Circassian sipahi in the Ottoman Army.

  • Adyghe traditional dagger dance.

  • Adyghes in the French mandate legion in Syria.

  • A painting from 1843 of an Adyghe warrior by Sir William Allan.

  • An Adyghe warrior.

  • Adyghe traditional dance group from the Caucasus region performing in Kfar Kama, Israel.

  • The fall of Damascus to the Allies, late June 1941. A car carrying the Free French commanders, General Georges Catroux and Major-General Paul Louis Le Gentilhomme, enters the city. They are escorted by Vichy French Circassian cavalry (Gardes Tcherkess).

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