Circassia
Americannoun
noun
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A year ago the Georgian Parliament voted unanimously to recognize the conquest of Circassia as a genocide, the first country in the world to do so.
From Newsweek ● May 21, 2012
In Circassia, a good shirt of mail was formerly worth from 10 to 200 oxen: but since it was discovered not to be a protection against cannon balls, its price fell 50 per cent.
From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)
According to official returns, the average deaths on the seaboard of Circassia in 1841 and 1842, were 17,000 in each year.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
On the twenty-third of June I went to England on the Circassia.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
Thus Russia possesses the northern shore of the sea, Turkey the western and southern, and Circassia the eastern.
From The Three Commanders by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell
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