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
They made themselves masters of Guelendchik and the important position of Gagra, which commands the pass between Circassia and Abkhasia.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
But even in Circassia an Englishman has been known to pay for a wife "three hundred and twenty-five pieces of cotton cloth," valued there at upwards of six thousand piastres.
From Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia by Mackie, John Milton
In all Circassia, there was no woman to be compared with Zara, for beauty.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
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
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