Karachay‐Cherkessia
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Karachay‐Cherkessia (Karachayevo‐Cherkesiya), Russia A republic named after the Karachay and Circassian peoples, but they are not related linguistically. The Russian for Circassian is
cherkes and this is said to come from an Ossetic word
charkas ‘eagle’. They are also known as the Adygei (see
Adygeya). The Karachay take their name from the Karachay River ‘Black Water’ from modern Turkish
kara and
çay ‘rivulet’ or ‘stream’. The two came together in 1922 to form an autonomous district, but were divided again in 1926. Accused of collaboration with the Germans during the Second World War, the Karachay were deported by Stalin
† in 1943–4 to Kazakhstan and their autonomous district was abolished. They were allowed back in 1957 when the Karachay‐Cherkessia autonomous district was re‐established. In 1991 the district became a republic.
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