Ademey Explained

The Adameys^[1] ^[2] or Adamians were a Circassian tribe^[3] who were massacred in the Circassian genocide. Today, they are assimilated into the Chemguy tribe and reduced to a small family in the village of Adamy.^[4]

History

The Adameys were first mentioned in 1667 in the reports of the Turkish traveler Evliya Çelebi, who reported:^[5]

According to Evliya Çelebi's report, this is how the tribe adopted its name:^[5]

Semyon Mikhailovich Bronevsky wrote in his 1823 description:The majority of Ademeys were destroyed in the Circassian genocide. The survivors were first exiled to the Balkans in 1864 (see Circassians in Bulgaria), and later settled in Turkey where they assimilated into other tribes or Turks.

Notable personalities

Sultan Khan-Giray

Notes and References

"Čerkesses". E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913–1936. Volume II. Leiden, 1987. p. 834. 9789004082656
Культура адыгов: по свидетельствам европейских авторов. Ельбрус, 1993.
Web site: Адыгейцы // Сайт Российского этнографического музея. 2021-09-12. 2018-08-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20180815150447/http://www.ethnomuseum.ru/adygeycy. dead.
Web site: Kafkasya'nın etnik mozaiği . 8 April 2013 . 16 April 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130408020025/http://www.kafkas.org.tr/bgkafkas/etnikcografya.html.
Web site: ЭВЛИЯ ЧЕЛЕБИ->КНИГА ПУТЕШЕСТВИЙ->ПУБЛИКАЦИЯ 1979 Г.->ЗЕМЛИ СЕВЕРНОГО КАВКАЗА, ПОВОЛЖЬЯ И ПОДОНЬЯ->ГЛАВА 2. www.vostlit.info.