CIRCASSIAN PRINCIPALITIES IN THE XIV-XV CENTURIES: FORMATION AND INTERRELATION WITH SUB-ETHNIC GROUPS
Journal: Historical and social-educational ideas
Year: 2016

One of the topical issues of the ethno-political history of Circassians of the late medieval period remains the problem of formation of fiefdoms (principalities) during the XIV-XV centuries, which took most part of the distance of the foothills of the North Caucasus from the Kerch Strait in the west to the Sunzha in the east. The sources of that period named population of the Taman “island” as ‘Zikhs’ or Circassians. But, along with that, in the Genoese correspondence of the XV century, in relat