Khatuq

Khatuq

Khatuq

Extinct Circassian tribe

The Khatuq or Adale[1][2] (Adyghe: Хьэтӏукъу, romanized: Hət'uqw) were a Circassian tribe that lived on the Taman Peninsula until it was occupied by Russian troops during the Russo-Circassian War, following which, the tribe was annihilated in the Circassian genocide.[3]

History

During the Russo-Circassian War, after their land was occupied, the surviving Khatuq tribespeople migrated to Natukhaj. During the Circassian genocide, as the Natukhaj were exterminated, most of those survivors were killed. A small portion of them fled to Turkey, where they were assimilated into Turks or other tribes.[4]

Mentions

In 1773, German explorer Johann Anton Güldenstädt reported about the Khatuq.[5] After the end of the Russo-Circassian War in 1871, Russian historian and academician Lieutenant General N.F. Dubrovin wrote:[6]

" ... Among the Natukhaj people lived three other Adyghe tribes, who were destroyed and merged: Chebsin, Khegayk, and Khatuq or Adale, who lived on the Taman peninsula, and now scattered in different places among the Natukhaj people ..."

References

  1. [1]
    "Čerkesses". E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913–1936. Volume II. Leiden, 1987. p. 834. 9789004082656
  2. [2]
    Культура адыгов: по свидетельствам европейских авторов. Ельбрус, 1993.
  3. [3]
    Волкова Н. Г. (1974). Этнический состав населения Северного Кавказа в XVIII — начале XX века. М.: Наука. pp. 21–22.
  4. [4]
    Адыгская (Черкесская) энциклопедия. Москва 2006 год.
  5. [5]
    "российская академия наук". www.vostlit.info.
  6. [6]
    "ДУБРОВИН Н.ЧЕРКЕСЫ (Адыги)". Archived from the original on 2011-11-29. Retrieved 2012-06-09.
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