page_title: Shapsugs
section_title: Some of the Shapsug families in Jordan
hierarchical_section_title: Shapsugs / Some Shapsug families / Some of the Shapsug families in Jordan
caption_attribution_description: Shabsogh Quarter_Amman
context_page_description: The Shapsug, also known as the Shapsugh or "Shapsogh," are one of the twelve tribes of the Circassian people. Historically, the Shapsug tribe used to make up one of the biggest groups of the Black Sea Adyghe. They inhabited the region between the Dzhubga River and Shakhe Rivers and high-altitude mountainous areas of the northern slopes of the Caucasus range along the Antkhir, Abin, Afips, Bakan, Ships, and other rivers.
  In Russia, the remaining Shapsug population mainly live in the Tuapsinsky District of Krasnodar Krai, Lazarevsky City District of Sochi, and in the Republic of Adygea, which were a small part of historical Circassia.
  However, today the major Shapsug communities are found in Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Western Europe, and the United States of America. The first Circassians to settle in Amman were from the Shapsug tribe, and as a result the Shapsug's neighbourhood is considered the oldest neighbourhood in the Capital Amman and was the down town of it; however, other Circassians from the Kabardian, Abadzekh, and Bzhedug tribes also settled in Amman afterwards.
context_section_description: Kosho (Adyghe: Кушъу / Кушу)
  Pshedatok (Adyghe: Пшыдатукъ)
  Shhalakhwa (Adyghe: Шхьэлахъо)
  Psekenop (Adyghe: Псыкынуп)
  Jan (Adyghe: Джан)
  T’harkakhwa (Adyghe: Тхьэркъахъуэ)
  Kwiej (Adyghe: Къуеж)
  Hadagha (Adyghe: Хьэдагъэ)
  Meesha (Adyghe: Мишэ)
  Hatough (Adyghe: Хьэтогъ)
  Naghoj (Adyghe: Нэгъуж)
  Tamokh (Adyghe: Тамохъ)
  Khorma (Adyghe: Хъурмэ)
  Bghana (Adyghe: Бгъанэ) which changed in Jordan to Hakouz (Adyghe: Хэкужъ after their 15th great-grandfather Хэкужъ born in 1337 in Tuapse, and this family considered the biggest Shapsug family in Jordan.
  Natkho (Shukri) (Adyghe: Натхъо)
  Shawash (Adyghe: ШъэошIу)
  Shoupash (Adyghe: Шупащ)
caption: The Shapsug's neighbourhood in Amman, Jordan
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