circassia, genocide and ethnic cleansing - part 3

Walid HakouzPart III

Toronto - Canada2011

CircassiaGenocide & Ethnic Cleansing

First group of migration to Trans-Jordan, were 300 Circassian families, who arrived in Amman, and

settled by the ruins of the Roman Amphitheater, and it’s known today as

Shapsoug Neighborhood

300 families

1868 Settlement in Amman

A group of Circassians re-migrated from Roumali area (Bulgaria, Serbia, and the Balkans), and disembarked at

Haifa port, then settled at:

• Khirbet Sharkess - (later was banded).

• Rihanya Village - 67 Abzakh families.

• Kufr Kama Village- 178 Shapsoug families.

245 families

1877 Settlement in Palestine

Circassians settled in the following areas:

• Aleppo.

• Hama.

• Homs.

• Damascus.

• Qunaitra (Golan Haights).

Settlement in Syria

15.000 disembarked at Haifa port, then crossed Palestine to settled at the Golan Heights, and re-built Qunaitra Town.

They built the following villages:

Mansoura, Surman, Madaria, Ein Ziwan, Memsaya, Jweiza, Braiqa, Beer Ajam, Khishnya, Faham, Fazarah, El-Marj, Hameedya, Sindyana,

Shouketlya, and Rouida.

15,000

1877 Settlement in Golan Heights

Circassians arrived at Aleppo area, and settled in the villages of:

• 350 Families - Minbij.• 86 Families - Khnaser.

Some families settled later in Aleppo, Ein Dagna, and Riqqa.

436 families

1877 Settlement in Aleppo

A group of 5,000 families arrived at Hama area, and built two villages:

• Telsinan - Нэчрэзейхаблэ.

• Teladi - Пынжкъуай.

Later, some families moved to Hama City.

5,000

1878 Settlement in Hama

A group of 9,000 families arrived at Homs area, and built five Circassian villages:• Tlail - Нэжэхьабл.• Telamri - Джэжэхьабл.• Ein Nisser - Къонщукъухьабл.• Mraij Dur - Хъосай.• Abu Hamamh - Хъосайжъый.• Essailah - Еным.

Later, some families moved to Homs City.

5,000

1878 Settlement in Homs

A group of 750 families arrived at Damascus. And moved east to set tell in Hosh Dowair village, till the built the Circassian village of Marj Sultan. Later, some families settled in Damascus City.

750 families

1878 Settlement in Marj Sultan

Settlement in Jordan

In 1879, the second wave of the Circassians arrived from Turkey, and were 500 families of : Bzhadoug,Shapsoug,Abdzakh, & Kabardins.

• 230 families settled in Amman.• 270 families settled in Wadi Seer.

500 families

Circassians ExpulsionAnvi Ugur

• 1885 – 95 families settled in Jeresh.• 1892 - 97 families settled in Na’ur.

• 1909 - 72 families settled in Sweileh.• 1909 - 16 families moved to Rusaifa.

310 families

Settlement in Jordan

Circassians ExpulsionF. Roubaud

Circassian Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing

Committed by Tsarist Russians

deported more than

1,000,000Circassians