Long live #Circassians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XUO1i7hvNQ&t=89s #russia #imperialism #genocide #circassia

Long live #Circassians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XUO1i7hvNQ&t=89s #russia #imperialism #genocide #circassia

"Circassian culture was often exoticised within Russia ... we carried a kind of internalised self-doubt, shaped by Soviet and post-Soviet attitudes that framed local culture as backward"
A story true of every local culture and independent nation that Moscow tried to colonise
#Circassians #Caucasus #imperialism #colonisation #genocide #soviethistory #histodons #ussr #soviet #music #russia #russiaukrainewar #ukrainewar #musichistory #religion #islam #ethnography #punk
Ored Recordings documents chants, laments and displacement songs of the Caucasus threatened by erasure. After the invasion of Ukraine, its ‘punk ethnography’ has never been more urgent
"Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million #NorthCaucasianMuslims fled to the #OttomanEmpire. Some, like the #Circassians, ran from a Russian perpetrated genocide. Others, like #Chechens, #Dagestanis, and others the violence of #RussianColonization."
#EurasianKnot welcomes #VladimirHamedTroyansky to discuss his book #EmpireOfRefugees
https://www.euraknot.org/muslim-refugees-in-the-ottoman-empire/
#OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #colonialViolence #NorthCaucasus #CircassianGenocide #books @histodons @bookstodon @russia
Polish newspaper Przyjaciel Ludu - Feb 13th, 1847.
A poem titled “Śpiew górali Kaukaskich - The Song of the Caucasian Highlanders”.
The corresponding article mentions that the Polish exiles in the Caucasus heard this song from the #Circassians.
The ethnic cleansing of Free Circassian Nationalism.
November 2016: Australia, the Anglican Church, the Catholic Church and Islam.
Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims And The Late Ottoman State #Circassians #Jordan @jordan
Адыгэм я лъэпкъгъэкlуэд, by Ramil Niyazov-Adyljan
translated by Elina Alter, Hilah Kohen, Ainsley Morse & Elaine Wilson #kazakh #circassians #ottomans #russia #genocide #migration #poetry
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2023/march/adygem-ya-lepkgeklued-ramil-niyazov-adyljan