The Adameys"Čerkesses". ''E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913–1936''. Volume II. Leiden, 1987. p. 834. 9789004082656 or Adamians () were a Circassian tribe who were massacred in the

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. Today, they are assimilated into the

Chemguy Temirgoy or Chemirgoy or Kemgui ( ady, КIэмгуй, '; or , '; or , '; russian: Темиргоевцы, ') are one of the twelve major Circassian tribes, representing one of the twelve stars on the green-and-gold Circassian flag. They lived be ...

tribe and reduced to a small family in the village of Adamy.

History

The Adameys were first mentioned in 1667 in the reports of the Turkish traveler

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, who reported: According to

's report, this is how the tribe adopted its name: Semyon Mikhailovich Bronevsky wrote in his 1823 description: The majority of Ademeys were destroyed in the

. The survivors were first exiled to the

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in 1864 (see

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), and later settled in Turkey where they assimilated into other tribes or

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Notable personalities

Sultan Khan-Giray Sultan Khan-Giray (full name: Kırım-Giray Mehmet Gireyev Khan-Giray; 1808–1842) was a Circassian politician and representative of the Circassian aristocracy, ethnographer, folklorist, art critic, author (of works that have contributed signif ...

References

{{Reflist Circassian tribes History of Kuban Ethnic groups in Russia Adygea