I am very impressed with these people. Very proud, but not in an arrogant way. Very knowledgable about their history and culture. More videos like this please, Corey.
In the name of Allah The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful to the believers, All praise and gratitude is for Allah, Peace be upon the one who follows the clear path. I invite to the true religion of The Creator of the heavens and the earth. Allah is One. The only one who is independent, all-powerful and the only one who is Unique. Allah has no sons and no daughters. The Creator is the most high. Nothing and no one is worshiped in truth except Allah. Allah is eternal and in need of no one, we (the creation) are dependent on Allah. The one who sent the prophets with the message: "To Only worship Allah, and do not worship any false gods/goddesses. Do not associate parnters with Allah." The prophet Muhammed peace be upon him is the last prophet of Allah. Allah didnt sent the messenger Muhammed for a specefic nation but for the hole word until the sun will rise from the west. (A sign from the signs of the Day of judgment/The Hour/The end of the test.) Because when that happens no more repentance will be accepted. Interpretation of the meaning of the Original Quran 91:9/10 Surely the one who purifies it (the soul) (from sins) will prosper. And surely the one who corrupts her (by sins) will lose. 2:256 There is no compulsion in religion There are those who tell lies about Allah. The Truth has come and falsehood has vanished. Falsehood is surely bound to vanish. The truth is from Allah the only Creator. The last revelation is from Allah is in the Quran and the authentic hadith (in Unique Arabic). Allah preserved the last revelation (sent to The last messenger Muhammed (pbuh)). There is only 1 Quran and not a letter has changed, And the sayings of the prophet (pbuh) are also preserved. Www.Quran.nl
@@dienaarvandeschepper9213 Salvation* can be found in no other name under Heaven other than THE NAME of Jesus THE CHRIST/BSHEM *YESHUA* HA MASHIACH. for HE alone IS THE ONLY WAY THE ONLY TRUTH and THE ONLY WAY to Eternal life and no one gets to HASHEM/GOD ecept through HIM. so i only ask all who are here if not already to please choose this day to trust in YESHUA HA MASHIACH that HE died in your place to make atonement for your sins that was seperating you from GOD so that by believing this and trusting in HIM that HE rose from the grave that you too by believing in HIM will one day rise from the dead and have eternal life and be saved from The Terrifying Wrath of HASHEM that is to come to all who reject YESHUA as THE MESSIAH of Israel and SAVIOR of The Whole World that HE rightly, truly IS. i ask please do this so that even today will be your *Day of Salvation*
but wait ! some hatred people want to describe israel as a racist country ! captain muslim in israel national team is peaceful ! you ruin the evil nerrative the haters created !
@@mcyoni93 just because the ISRAELI is muslim doesn’t mean it’s nor racist there are lots of Palestinian who are not muslim who are oppressed it’s not got anything to do with religion
This is super-fascinating...even more than most videos. I did already know about Circassians, but I still learned a lot about Circassians from this video! Those people answering the questions are extremely knowledgeable and can really deliver that knowledge well!
O Son of Israel, why do you join yourself to God as a partner? Why do you equate yourself with God? Isn't this an encroachment on the Rights of God and an insult to God? Isn't every creature, all of God's creation, God's servants? Isn't God Powerful over every creature? In such a case, isn't every being a servant of God? O children of Israel, why have you slandered God? If every creature is God's slaves, then how can God call someone gods, sons, children, etc.? Is it fitting for God to tell a lie (lie)? Isn't every creature a slave of God? O children of Israel, please answer my question honestly. Have any of you ever called your children slaves? Even though your children were stupid, disobedient, sinners, villains, they listened to you only for profit, or because they were afraid of you. Have you ever called them your slaves? - Of course not. How then can God call his children slaves? You talk about God that which is alien to you. In your Book (Torah), the God of Moses issued a verdict that he was His slave. “Moses, My servant, is dead.” According to your logic, God should have called Moses not not a slave but a super-duper beloved son. But God made a verdict about him that he was only a servant of God. Why are you equating yourself with God? You will become aware of the fact that you are pagans now. And God does not forgive the Gentiles after death.
@@donttrustthem7601 Salvation* can be found in no other name under Heaven other than THE NAME of Jesus THE CHRIST/BSHEM *YESHUA* HA MASHIACH. for HE alone IS THE ONLY WAY THE ONLY TRUTH and THE ONLY WAY to Eternal life and no one gets to HASHEM/GOD ecept through HIM. so i only ask all who are here if not already to please choose this day to trust in YESHUA HA MASHIACH that HE died in your place to make atonement for your sins that was seperating you from GOD so that by believing this and trusting in HIM that HE rose from the grave that you too by believing in HIM will one day rise from the dead and have eternal life and be saved from The Terrifying Wrath of HASHEM that is to come to all who reject YESHUA as THE MESSIAH of Israel and SAVIOR of The Whole World that HE rightly, truly IS. i ask please do this so that even today will be your *Day of Salvation*
We Circassians are a peaceful nation, we don't get involved in the politics of others, and one day hopefully all my brave people will return to their homeland, high up in the Caucasus, to Cherkessia!
You are also Muslims which means you are our brothers in faith. That's a responsibility. This is not just our politics but also yours. You can't say you were genocided but when another nation is being genocided you turn a blind eye. You lived 70 years with your Muslim brothers in ottoman Palestine and then they were killed and displaced. Now you live since 75 years with their killers as they want you to.
This is far and away the best video of the last few dozen for instance. Most of the time the questions posed are to people who's minds are closed environments and simply regurgitate their programming. This video is insightful and informative.
even me as an israeli i never met with Circassian guy here , i think they preety much live in their own communities and life but everyone knows they are extremly nice and peaceful and good behaviour people !
@@ozgurhetfield Salvation* can be found in no other name under Heaven other than THE NAME of Jesus THE CHRIST/BSHEM *YESHUA* HA MASHIACH. for HE alone IS THE ONLY WAY THE ONLY TRUTH and THE ONLY WAY to Eternal life and no one gets to HASHEM/GOD ecept through HIM. so i only ask all who are here if not already to please choose this day to trust in YESHUA HA MASHIACH that HE died in your place to make atonement for your sins that was seperating you from GOD so that by believing this and trusting in HIM that HE rose from the grave that you too by believing in HIM will one day rise from the dead and have eternal life and be saved from The Terrifying Wrath of HASHEM that is to come to all who reject YESHUA as THE MESSIAH of Israel and SAVIOR of The Whole World that HE rightly, truly IS. i ask please do this so that even today will be your *Day of Salvation*
I play in a folk band and call dances. Usually Scots/Irish and some others. One of the dances we play and call, is called The Circassian Circle. Danced and called it for years. Only now do I know who The Circassian were. Amazing. Thanks.
@@shameljij1224this is not a very good version. The dancers dont teally know it. But the link will give an idea. ruclips.net/video/v_GoW-wQD_s/видео.html
@@shameljij1224 Salvation* can be found in no other name under Heaven other than THE NAME of Jesus THE CHRIST/BSHEM *YESHUA* HA MASHIACH. for HE alone IS THE ONLY WAY THE ONLY TRUTH and THE ONLY WAY to Eternal life and no one gets to HASHEM/GOD ecept through HIM. so i only ask all who are here if not already to please choose this day to trust in YESHUA HA MASHIACH that HE died in your place to make atonement for your sins that was seperating you from GOD so that by believing this and trusting in HIM that HE rose from the grave that you too by believing in HIM will one day rise from the dead and have eternal life and be saved from The Terrifying Wrath of HASHEM that is to come to all who reject YESHUA as THE MESSIAH of Israel and SAVIOR of The Whole World that HE rightly, truly IS. i ask please do this so that even today will be your *Day of Salvation*
He did one on Crimean Karaites wth a single interviewee. ruclips.net/video/YVRhy9g2fJ8/видео.html He also did one which included an interview with a Karaite from Egypt, but I can't find it right now.
@@marksimons8861 Thanks, I missed the one on the Crimean Karaite, I remember the Karaite couple of Egyptian background, I think they lived in Lod or Ramle. Most of the Karaites in Israel are of Egyptian background. One of my sisters had a Karaite boyfriend (Egyptian), but he was for all intents and purposes secular. I remember my parents (who are Orthodox) were very concerned, because he was secular, and then they even consulted with a rabbi to make sure he was considered halakhically Jewish (they actually are, they don't need to "convert" just declare that they accept the Oral Law and they can be married in a rabbinite marriage with other Jews, as far as Orthodox Judaism is concerned). But that was back when this sister was very secular, and she wasn't going to marry him anyway. Now she is a Chabadnikit, of course, ad quite a religious fanatic.
...and highly intelligent. Circassians were welcomed by the Ottomans to work as administrators instead of the local Arabs, whom they considered unsuitable for government work. This mass migration saved many Circassians from the Russian genocide against them, and many now in former Ottoman lands are descended from those administrators.
The Circassian Courtship Dance is awesome - it's the males who dance to impress the women, who would become their possible brides. The male dancers are very athletic and acrobatic - and the women are very attractive. There are some videos here on RUclips that show these incredible dancers.
@@Sain8music no it’s not. Circassians in the Middle East have never been under soviet rule and they dance the same exact dances. Because our folk dances were not created by soviets, but what the soviets did do is establish dance companies and ensembles with funding etc.
This was so interesting. My favorite part was that I could read the Turkish map to see where they were expelled from 😞, only because I lived in Turkey years ago and am losing my Turkish skills. But the map read, “Black Sea” (Kara Deniz). I love these videos of the minority groups who have been there centuries, and just stayed through the Ottomans and now Israel, and now speak Hebrew, Arabic, and their own tongue. And sometimes English. So cool to learn how they lived there in Ottoman times and now under the Israeli government, and just do their thing, kinda like a lot of other minorities in Israel/Palestine. I hope one day he does a video on the Armenian Christians who have been there for centuries.
Many Zios are unaware that Herzl approached the Ottomans, as well as the Germans and the Russians, with zero success, before the British and the Balfour Declaration that had no legitimacy whatsoever
@@chugalongway01 jews have always lived in Israel before Balfour and after the British backed out of his declaration In 1937, Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee to the British Peel Commission, Awni Abd al-Hadi stated: “There is no such country as Palestine. ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented.”
@@GigiAbbi-cu9qn It’s funny watching you having to repeat really old and stupid hasbara that only a Zio would say. It’s really funny how you have everything backwards. You are a joke. The first Zios , and even the Polish Father of Israel, from Herzl to Ben Gurion all called it Palestine. Herzl did not know of a territory called the Land Of Israel. He called it Palestine, like like how the Mandate was for a place called Palestine, not one word, is about Israel. You should go back to hasbara school. Your apologia stinks
I found it interesting that that many Bosnian descendants integrated into the Circassian community; I knew of the Bosnians (many with surname Bushnaq, as the gentleman mentioned) that regard themselves as Arab or Palestinians, but funny that they didn't preserve and retain a separate Bosnian identity in Israel/Palestine/Syria (they are spread throughout the Middle East too) as the Circassians did, but just assimilated into other communities. Maybe they didn't feel as much pressure to safeguard the idendity as there were still many Bosnians in Bosnia itself.
1_ The Circassians of Palestine were supposed to be exiled from their villages in 1948, but the Jews were concerned about the reaction of the international community so they decided to keep them, as the Israeli historian Benny Morris stated. 2_ in 1967 Israel took over Golan heights, in result 14 Circassian villages including the City of Qunaitra which had a majority Circassian population were completely wiped off existence, Circassians had to leave their villages, homes, possessions to Israeli excavators and flee to Damascus. Let's ignore that and act as if Israel is such a friendly and diverse country!
Dude, are you seriously saying that a civil war between Arabs and Jews in 1948 represents today's Israel? Come on. Israeli Circassians are very loyal citizens to Israel and wish not to be forced upon a Palestinian national identity
@@jonathanrotem251 Ok then Let today's Israel give back the illegally occupied Golan heights so the real owners can finally go back to their lands.. !! No? They wont? So there's no difference between 1948's 1967' and 2021's Israel
@@tcherkess9695 Israel was willing to negotiate a retreat from the Golan Hights... It was Syria who backed off from the talks. Also, under international law it is justified to hold territory conquered in a defensive war, 1967 was an attempt by 3 countries to destroy Israel (illegal BTW) so I don't see where your anger is coming from.
Ничего Себе wrote: "in 1967 Israel took over Golan heights, in result 14 Circassian villages including the City of Qunaitra which had a majority Circassian population were completely wiped off existence, Circassians had to leave their villages, homes, possessions to Israeli excavators and flee to Damascus." = = = = = = = = GZ: Israel’s connection to the Golan Heights is traced back to the Bible. The Golan is the biblical Bashan. In Deuteronomy 4:43, it says, “Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites," one of the Tribes of Israel. Syria, controlled the Golan Height only for 21 years (1946-1967); from 1948 until 1967, Syria would use its vantage point to attack Israeli villages in the Galilee region.
In Balkan and in some regions in Turkey, like Ürgüp Capadoccia, women, my Grandma too, wear or used to wear also white cotton thin scarf like Circassian girl:)
The people of the Caucaus region are in my opinion *the most self preserving,dignified,honourable,trustworthy,bravest and the most loyal people on Earth* Even though they are generally strict Muslims, *the attributes i mentioned above are whats more important to them* I hope the world can learn from and help preserve such unique people. Amen.amin.
I learned in history that they came from Russia they are from different religions and cultures. They are only a few of them. Also from Syria and Turkey. They have also different languages and traditions.
Besides coming from Russia - the Arabs aka 1964 Palestinians also came as refugees from Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon - the Levant. The Arabs aka 1964 Palestinians adopted the Arab way of life - traditions, rituals and language.
They did not come from Russia,they did come from CAUCASIA.Russians are just occupiers like Ottomans in Balkans. Caucasians are not Russians we have our NATIVE cultures. Rus' are foreigners.
What an excellent and informative video !! I enjoyed every second!! My husband's family lived in the Black Sea area until 1914. I wonder if a modern DNA test would show if someone was Circassian?🤔 thanks again Corey for this awesome interview . Can't wait to travel again . This place is going to be top on my list.
@@Natan_from_Haifa Salvation* can be found in no other name under Heaven other than THE NAME of Jesus THE CHRIST/BSHEM *YESHUA* HA MASHIACH. for HE alone IS THE ONLY WAY THE ONLY TRUTH and THE ONLY WAY to Eternal life and no one gets to HASHEM/GOD ecept through HIM. so i only ask all who are here if not already to please choose this day to trust in YESHUA HA MASHIACH that HE died in your place to make atonement for your sins that was seperating you from GOD so that by believing this and trusting in HIM that HE rose from the grave that you too by believing in HIM will one day rise from the dead and have eternal life and be saved from The Terrifying Wrath of HASHEM that is to come to all who reject YESHUA as THE MESSIAH of Israel and SAVIOR of The Whole World that HE rightly, truly IS. i ask please do this so that even today will be your *Day of Salvation*
I am really happy and a bit jealous of you, about protecting your culture and language. I am a Cirssasian originated Turkish and i would like to know my language but unfortunately in Turkey, there is not much left who knows mother tongue.
@@UnownLeaf Yes, here much more of us. Mostly elders know and speak but it is hard to teach and the language is being lost espicially among young generations.. It has many causes like geography, cultural associations etc. For example my family is Circassian but my parents doesn't know it and i had possibility to learn it when i was 15 :(
@@UnownLeaf Salvation* can be found in no other name under Heaven other than THE NAME of Jesus THE CHRIST/BSHEM *YESHUA* HA MASHIACH. for HE alone IS THE ONLY WAY THE ONLY TRUTH and THE ONLY WAY to Eternal life and no one gets to HASHEM/GOD ecept through HIM. so i only ask all who are here if not already to please choose this day to trust in YESHUA HA MASHIACH that HE died in your place to make atonement for your sins that was seperating you from GOD so that by believing this and trusting in HIM that HE rose from the grave that you too by believing in HIM will one day rise from the dead and have eternal life and be saved from The Terrifying Wrath of HASHEM that is to come to all who reject YESHUA as THE MESSIAH of Israel and SAVIOR of The Whole World that HE rightly, truly IS. i ask please do this so that even today will be your *Day of Salvation*
I never heard of Circassians before. Impressive that they managed to hold on to their culture and language for all these years whilst seemingly maintaining peaceful relations with other groups they live with.
@@platonsocrat7935 But while he has no Circassian heritage, he does have Jewish ancestry. "2. Boris feels Jewish (sometimes). Johnson’s maternal great-grandfather, Elias Avery Lowe, was a Moscow-born Jew born to a textile merchant. Johnson confirmed this in a 2007 interview for the Jewish Chronicle.“I feel Jewish when I feel the Jewish people are threatened or under attack, that’s when it sort of comes out,” Johnson said. “When I suddenly get a whiff of anti-Semitism, it’s then that you feel angry and protective.”"
*Well done Channel Host.* What an excellent Interview the 1st guest offers a really rich concentration of knowledge, history-summary Superb. He has an exceptionally positive personality, i.e., energy frequency and: *"He clearly has a mastery of his Higher-Mind, where Mature Thought and Wisdom resides. This is 🔑 to Inner Harmony and Collective Peace.* Well done Channel Host! I find these Peoples to be most desirable "in conversation, intellect, Thought Management, and thus would be desirable friends and neighbors." *Religions are positive or negative "fully depending on ones Thought Perspective, i.e., the fear and negative, Fundamentalism, is directly associated with the Lower-Mind, the Spiritual and those seeking a balance in Harmony, Peace, Cooperation and Understanding/Compassion and Empathy is directly associated with our Higher Mind.* The Social Science interpretation aka Sociologist defining.
As I am a Turkish/Circassians (Muslim), I always appreciate Israel how wonderfully provide the most democratic rights to Circassians more than any other countries. Many Circassians are also serves in Isreali army. Circassians are the most loyal peoples in every societys that they live in. God bless Isreal.
@@circassianmuslimh9948 that’s the reality check my friend. All you know is how to hate to Israel but you never make any empathy for them. I think child killers are the person who through kids in front of front line and supports hozbellah, Al Qassam Brigades or whatever groups. These groups are also terrorize the Muslims. Do u know how many Palestinians are suffering because of them?? If you be good citizen, Israel has no harm to you unless you are not terrorist.
@@yalchenozkan Türkçe konuşacağım kardeşim, İsrail'den büyük terör devleti mi var? İsrail okullarında neler öğretiliyor hiç biliyor musun? Bilmemen muhtemel. Öğretilen bilgiler Arapların kendilerinin köleleri olmayı kabul edeceği veya yok olacağı üzerine dayalı. İsrail'i kuran Siyonistlerin amacı da zaten Süleyman mabedini yıkıp Sion yıldızını orda dalgalandirmak mesihin gelişinden önce. İsrail o topraklar geldiğinden beridir kan ve gözyaşı eksik olmuyor o coğrafyadan. İsrail askeri dediğin cesaret hapı alamadan tanka binemeyen, 15 asker ile bir sapanlı çocuğa korkarak yaklaşan yüreksizler güruhu. / Evet Hamas'i sonuna kadar destekliyorum, sen ona terörizm dersin ama onlar 1.8 milyarlık islam aleminin yapması gereken şeyi yapmamasından dolayı kendileri üstlendi kutsal topraklardan işgalcileri defetmeyi ve özgür bir Filistin için keza. Şu an İsrail'deki her birey sivil değil askerdir. Orda yaşayan herkes o işgale hâl diliyle destek veriyor demektir. Hayat,iman ve cihaddır, tüm islam beldeleri küffar tasallutundan kurtulana kadar cihada devam.
Circassians have right in jordan They have private school and center cultural And many of them are more represented in army and close cercle of the king Israel do nothing special to circassian You support israel for nothing
As a pro-Palestinian Chechen/Abaza, I’m very curious as to what the stance of the Circassians and other Caucasians in Israel are in the conflict. I hope they are aware of Israel’s atrocities and side with their Muslim brothers. It’s not even a matter of religion - any HUMAN BEING can tell who is rigjt and who is wrong in this war.
А много мусульман встали на сторону палестинцев, одна демагогия начиная с Эрдогана.. И почему черкессы должны идти против своего государства которое предоставила все права?
Brothers? What brothers? They are not our brothers. First of all, the only actual brothers we have are Abkhazians because they are related to us. Second of all, we get along with Jews and Israel and that's not going to change because a single particular tribe of Arabs decideded to become self-destructive and in the process destroy others as well. Now I'm going to say something that is my personal opinion. I will never sympathize with a people which thinks it's okay to murder and rape girls/women. Besides, we don't owe anything to Arabs. Do you hear us complain about Arab countries being on good terms with Russia who almost completely wiped us out? The UAE host Russian criminals, they wash Russian money and collaborate with them politically.
Черкессы- безоговорочные братья Израильтян. Мы живем с ними в добром соседстве. Посещаем их регулярно. Эти люди- великие труженики. Они служат в израильской армии и поэтому вам придется принять тот факт, что это наши друзья... Да, о чудо, мусульмане также служат в армии Израиля. Значит у Израильтян нет проблем с мусульманами. Так почему у вас, кавказцев есть проблема с нами. Народы Кавказа никогда не враждовали с евреями. Кто-то вам намеренно прошептал эту мысль, что вы должны нас ненавидеть. Хамас убивал и брал в заложники мусульман. Недавно они освободили брата и сестру , они мусульмане. Так что , повторяя пропалестинскую шарманку, которую вам намеренно завели, не позволит вам понять этот народ. Этот народ и мы связаны узами крови. У нас в Израиле в двух черкесских деревнях настоящий Кавказ. Нравится вам Это или нет.
My grandfather spoke kabardin (one of the Circassian languages) from north Caucasus. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to learn it. However, as a kid I learned kafa and other traditional Circassian dances
I found out that the Circassian capital is what's now called Sochi in Russia which held the Winter Olympic games before...apparently there was a g-cide by the Empire to the Circassians after the war that left them from 100K to just around 98 apparently, with many fleeing to the Ottoman Empire.
there arent really yazidis in israel. there are few groups and churches who define themselves as assyriacs or arameans.he interviewed jews who came.from assyria and whose parents spoke assyriac (he refered to them as kurdish jews).
@@netanelzion If I remember correctly, it was a male Yazidi, and I don't know if he got his asylum request, it was at the time of the ISIS massacres of Yazidi
As a turkish ,my mother is circassian, good to see in israili circassian protect languega unfortunutly in turkey %90 circassian are assimilated ,become turkfield
Annenin Çerkes, babanın Türk olması ve Türkleşmelerini üzücü bulman beni şaşırttı. Ama senin gibi annesi Çerkes, babası farklı bir milletten biri olarak teşekkür ederim.
@@juhuri6128 üzülemedim sadece , çerkesler bitiyor artık biraz üzücü tabiki türküm ama 10 sene içinde çerkesler tamamen yok olucak biraz üzücü , sende mi türksün,? Nerelisin , tabiki ben türküm ve türk hissediyorum ama çerkes kanımda var
@@xxxxxx-rg6qr İstanbul'da yaşıyorum ve sayılıyorum tabi. Ama bir o kadar komik bir mesele. Aile için'de hep tartışma konusuydu. Babamlar annenin milleti ne ise milletin o diyorlardı annemler de babanın milleti neyse o diyorlardı. İsrail'den pasaport alırken ikisi de kendi aile isimlerini yazdırmamı istedi sonra. Bir de bir yere giderken ikisi de kendi aile isimleriyle tanıtmamı istiyor kendimi. Bizim community'de ve İsrail devletine göre sayılıyorum ama diğer communityleri bilmiyorum kısaca. Çok değişiyor. Hollanda'da arkadaşlık grubumuz var babası Yahudi olanlar, annesi olmayanlar diye. Orada çok konuşuyoruz bu meseleyi. Ben de memnun oldum ayriyetten.
My step-Uncle by my 'milk-Aunt'was a turkish Cerkes... very proud people with very interesting languages/dialects. Also very hard working! He once talked Cerkes for me when I was a small child, it was very funny to the ears yet interesting. (He was fluent, don't listen to people lying about Cerkes not being allowed to know their language in Turkey. Lies!) My cousins, his own children, weren't interested in it at all… such a shame!!!
@@hilalxxx4071 Salvation* can be found in no other name under Heaven other than THE NAME of Jesus THE CHRIST/BSHEM *YESHUA* HA MASHIACH. for HE alone IS THE ONLY WAY THE ONLY TRUTH and THE ONLY WAY to Eternal life and no one gets to HASHEM/GOD ecept through HIM. so i only ask all who are here if not already to please choose this day to trust in YESHUA HA MASHIACH that HE died in your place to make atonement for your sins that was seperating you from GOD so that by believing this and trusting in HIM that HE rose from the grave that you too by believing in HIM will one day rise from the dead and have eternal life and be saved from The Terrifying Wrath of HASHEM that is to come to all who reject YESHUA as THE MESSIAH of Israel and SAVIOR of The Whole World that HE rightly, truly IS. i ask please do this so that even today will be your *Day of Salvation*
They mentioned almost everything about themselves but forgot that Circassians call themselves "Adighe" in their own language. Circassian or Cherkes are just exonyms.
Actually there might be italian people of circassian ancestry, as circassian were sold as slaves in venice I think. Also someone of the medici clan was partly of circassian ancestry (his mother was a circassian slave).
Are there Circassians making ' aliyah' to their historic homeland in the Caucasus? Or are they fully comfortable in their adopted homeland in Israel much as some Jews do in the United States?
Circassia from what I read is seemingly a polity from 7th century AD to 1864 when then Russian Empire took over...from what I see the only remaining Circassian entity at the moment is the Adyghe Republic in Russia which has ~25% Circassians and has Adyghe as a language but is seemingly the remains of the Circassian lands as the neighboring krai is now been Russified.
I am circassian myself (although not from Israel). As the community in Israel is very small and marriages between circassians there already had took place in the past, the inhabitants have become relatives to some extend. And marrying relatives is strictly forbidden in the circassian culture. Therefore the circassians in Kfar Kama and Reyhaniya marry with circassians outside of Israel. I even know some people who married with people from Kfar Kama and moved there.
Though the Jews were everywhere a subject people, and in much of the world persecuted as well, Khazaria was the one place in the medieval world where the Jews actually were their own masters. To the oppressed Jews of the world, the Khazars were a source of pride and hope. The history of Khazaria presents us with a fascinating example of how Jewish life flourished in the Middle Ages. In a time when Jews were persecuted thruout Christian Europe, the kingdom of Khazaria was a beacon of hope. Jews were able to flourish in Khazaria because of the tolerance of the Khazar rulers, who invited Roman and Persian Jewish refugees to settle in their country. Due to the influence of these refugees, the Khazars found the Jewish religion to be appealing and adopted Judaism in large numbers. Most of the available information about the Khazars comes from Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Roman, and Slavic sources, most of which are reliable. There is also a large quantity of archaeological evidence concerning the Khazars that illuminates multiple aspects of the Khazarian economy (arts and crafts, trade, agriculture, fishing, etc.) as well as burial practices. The Khazars were a Turkic people who originated in Central Asia. The early Turkic tribes were quite diverse, although it is believed that reddish hair was predominant among them prior to the Mongol conquests. In the beginning, the Khazars believed in Tengri shamanism, spoke a Turkic language, and were nomadic. Later, the Khazars adopted Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, learned Hebrew and Slavic, and became settled in cities and towns thruout the north Caucasus and modern day Ukraine. The Khazars had a great history of ethnic independence extending approximately 800 years from the 5th to the 13th century. From about 550 to 630, the Khazars were part of the Western Turkish Empire, ruled by the Celestial Blue Turks (Kök Turks). When the Western Turkish Empire was broken up as a result of civil wars in the middle of the 7th century, the Khazars successfully asserted their independence. Yet, the Kök kaganate under which they had lived provided the Khazars with their system of government. For example, the Khazars followed the same guidelines as the Kök Turks regarding the succession of kings. At its maximum extent, the independent country of Khazaria included the geographic regions of southern Russia, northern Caucasus, eastern Ukraine, Crimea, western Kazakhstan, and northwestern Uzbekistan. Other Turkic groups such as the Sabirs and Bulgars came under Khazar jurisdiction during the 7th century. The Khazars forced some of the Bulgars (led by Asparukh) to move to modern-day Bulgaria, while other Bulgars fled to the upper Volga River region where the independent state of Volga Bulgharia was founded. The Khazars had their greatest power over other Turkic tribes in the 9th century, controlling Magyars, Pechenegs, Burtas, North Caucasian Huns, and other tribes and demanding tribute from them. Because of their jurisdiction over the area, the Caspian Sea was named the "Khazar Sea", and even today the Turkish, Persian, and Arabic languages designate the Caspian by this term (in Turkish, "Hazar Denizi"; in Arabic, "Bahr-ul-Khazar"; in Persian, "Daryaye Khazar"). The first Khazar capital was Balanjar, which is identified with the archaeological site Verkhneye Chir-Yurt. During the 720s, the Khazars transferred their capital to Samandar, a coastal town in the north Caucasus noted for its beautiful gardens and vineyards. In 750, the capital was moved to the city of Itil (Atil) on the edge of the Volga River. In fact, the name "Itil" also designated the Volga River in the medieval age. Itil would remain the Khazar capital for at least another 200 years. Itil, the administrative center of the Khazar kingdom, was located adjacent to Khazaran, a major trading center. In the early 10th century, Khazaran-Itil's population was composed mostly of Muslims and Jews, but a few Christians lived there also. The capital city had many mosques. The king's palace was located on an island nearby, which was surrounded by a brick wall. The Khazars stayed in their capital during the winter, but they lived in the surrounding steppe in the spring and summer to cultivate their crops. The great capital city of modern Ukraine, Kiev, was founded by Khazars. Kiev is a Turkic place name (Küi = riverbank + ev = settlement). A community of Jewish Khazars lived in Kiev. The Khazars' dual-monarchy was a Turkic system under which the kagan was the supreme king and the bek (bey) was the civilian army leader. The kagans were part of the Turkic Asena ruling family that had provided kagans for other Central Asian nations in the early medieval period. The Khazar kagans had relations with the rulers of the Roman empire, Abkhazians, and Armenians. To some extent, the Khazarian kings influenced the religion of the Khazar people, but they tolerated those who had different religions than their own, so that even when these kings adopted Judaism they still let Greek Christians, pagan Slavs, and Muslim Iranians live in their domains. In the capital city, the Khazars established a supreme court composed of 7 members, and every religion was represented on this judicial panel (according to one contemporary Arab chronicle, the Khazars were judged according to the Torah, while the other tribes were judged according to other laws). ........ "The Khazar people were an unusual phenomenon for Medieval times. Surrounded by savage and nomadic tribes, they had all the advantages of the developed countries: structured government, vast and prosperous trading, and a permanent army. At the time, when great fanatism and deep ignorance contested their dominion over Western Europe, the Khazar state was famous for its justice and tolerance. People persecuted for their faiths flocked into Khazaria from everywhere. As a glistening star it shone brightly on the gloomy horizon of Europe. - Raymond Scheindlin, in The Chronicles of the Jewish People (1996)
Extremely interesting impressive people. I am more interested to know why Georgians and Armenians refused Islam but Sircacians accepted the religion after long centuries of fighting. And why they were expelled from Russia while Chechnyans and Daghistanis were allowed to stay.
Adopting religions in the region had to do with the interests of the particular rulers rather than its citizens - that's why different Caucasian nations adpoted different religions. As for the second question: Russians wanted to gain a stable access to the eastern coast of the Black Sea that was historically inhabited by Circassians. On the contrary, Chechens and inhabitants of Dagestan inhabited the hardly-accessible montainous areas. That's why only Circassians suffered from ethnic cleansing.
Circassians were the last nation to resist the Russian empire in the Caucasus. The Russian empire seeing that they are unable to subdue the Circassian people regular way they changed their plans from subduing them and letting them be subjects to the Russian empire, to expelling/exterminating the Circassian people in any way possible. The Russian empire had to put up its largest army that was ever assembled in its Caucasus campaigns
Not quite. Despite rejecting all proposals for partition there was a _de facto partition_ 1948-1967 and many if not most Palestinians are still residing in Palestine. If you factor in that Jordan was a part of Palestine (as claimed by the late King Hussein) you could say the majority still reside in Palestine. Were you to go one step further and consider the whole of Palestine and Jordan as "South Syria" (as claimed by the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad) then you could add in both Syria and Lebanon. That would mean nearly all today's Palestinians are still living in their homeland.
@@huntermosely7420 bro, the khazar bs theory had been debunked many times already, there was no mass conversions of Khazaria to Judaism. Judaism was restricted to the king and a small portion of the aristocracy, not the general population. Also, Dna also disproves that, most Jews traced their Dna back to the Levant, not Turkic.
@@huntermosely7420 Guy is correct. The first Israelites were Arameans (Genesis 25:20, Deuteronomy 26:5) and they have shared connections with the other Aramean ethno-religious groups like the Samaritans (John 4:12), Mandaeans, Chaldean Christians, Syriac Christians, etc.
@@huntermosely7420 1. first of all Manhattan is not an ethnicity 2. as far as I know Khazaria was people around the Caucasus region so its not europe anymore and also they were not just Jewish but most of them were Christians and of course Muslims down the line . Too many flaws about this "theory" which was invented around 5 years ago probably by "I'm assuming idk for sure" by far left neo-Nazis and radical Palestinian/arab groups.
Two questions: 1. Are they related to Chechens? 2. How come they are Muslims, but still don't have problems with Israel/Jews (usually there's a hostility between them).
1. They’re both North Caucasian, so probably as related as Palestinians and Syrians, for example. 2. Many Muslims support Israel. I don’t, but many do, above all the ones that have the Israeli citizenship.
Circassian here.. 1. No. Although Chechens share many cultural similarities with us (because we are living in the same region) they are not related to us. We are a Northwest-Caucasian people. The only people who are directly related to us are the Abkhazians. 2. I guess because our culture is not really defined by religion. We used to have our own kind of pagan religion before Christianity and Islam and neither Christianity nor Islam really penetrated our cultural identity. Also there were and still are mountain Jews all over the Caucasus and no one was really bothered by them.
Turks desperately tried to populate this empty (300k only) and distant province of their empire. So the Caucasian war was a real opportunity for the to bring few (3 villages) of refugees to here. 4 Arab immigration the place start to be attractive only after the start of Jewish development (zionist project) at the end of 19-beginning of 20 century. Each Jewish immigrant created indirectly 3-4 working places for arab immigrants, so when small Jewish population doubled itself, arab (small as well) trippled.
Hi Corey, This message is directly for you, since you like to play the “messenger” card. Please, PLEASE DO NOT REFER TO THE DRUZE especially in the reference of banishing their children for inter-marriage. Make a video to discuss why that’s the case but you obviously don’t know how deep our religious beliefs are.
I am first and I am last, and besides Me there is no G-d (Isaiah 44:6) I am first (I have no father) I am last (I have no son) besides Me there is no G-d (I have no brother or co-creator)
I'd be proud as well. I have been learning a lot about what's happening over there during the Palestinianj/Israeli war. From only watching the news before I was led to believe that only Jews lived in Israel and they didn't like any other people's. But I've learnt they have many people and different religions living peacefully like the Circassians,Druze and Samarites etc. Whenever something like this war happens I like to educate myself before performing an opinion and I think Israel is the good guys for now
There are still Circassian Christians in Russia and elsewhere. Their ancestors strongly and peacefully refused to be forced into becoming Muham-mad-ans. Not all Circassian Christians are Armenians etc.
@@canmanlamAlright, Californian🤣😂😅😆😄 Muhammadanism is the real racist ideology. You as an American haven't had to live under their racist discrimination and thus you throw round insulting terms to we who know & tell the truth.
@@stlouisix3 I worked in 3 Muslim countries and Muslims without exception were the nicest warmest most hospitable people I have ever encountered. Again ur a racist loser spewing hate . I bet ur the one who has never met a Muslim in ur life.
@@canmanlam well that person is lying. I am circassian myself and noone forced them to converse to islam. Back than they did not fully accept christianity. They still believed in their pre- christian deities. They got influenced by their muslim ottoman neighbors and the majority fully converted when christian Russia, who they fought 100 years against, attacked them. They did not want to share the same religion as their enemies.
I am very impressed with these people. Very proud, but not in an arrogant way. Very knowledgable about their history and culture. More videos like this please, Corey.
In the name of Allah The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful to the believers,
All praise and gratitude is for Allah,
Peace be upon the one who follows the clear path. I invite to the true religion of The Creator of the heavens and the earth. Allah is One. The only one who is independent, all-powerful and the only one who is Unique. Allah has no sons and no daughters. The Creator is the most high. Nothing and no one is worshiped in truth except Allah. Allah is eternal and in need of no one, we (the creation) are dependent on Allah. The one who sent the prophets with the message: "To Only worship Allah, and do not worship any false gods/goddesses. Do not associate parnters with Allah."
The prophet Muhammed peace be upon him is the last prophet of Allah. Allah didnt sent the messenger Muhammed for a specefic nation but for the hole word until the sun will rise from the west. (A sign from the signs of the Day of judgment/The Hour/The end of the test.)
Because when that happens no more repentance will be accepted.
Interpretation of the meaning of the Original Quran
91:9/10
Surely the one who purifies it (the soul) (from sins) will prosper.
And surely the one who corrupts her (by sins) will lose.
2:256
There is no compulsion in religion
There are those who tell lies about Allah.
The Truth has come and falsehood has vanished. Falsehood is surely bound to vanish. The truth is from Allah the only Creator. The last revelation is from Allah is in the Quran and the authentic hadith (in Unique Arabic). Allah preserved the last revelation (sent to The last messenger Muhammed (pbuh)). There is only 1 Quran and not a letter has changed, And the sayings of the prophet (pbuh) are also preserved.
Www.Quran.nl
@@dienaarvandeschepper9213 Salvation* can be found in no other name under Heaven other than THE NAME of Jesus THE CHRIST/BSHEM *YESHUA* HA MASHIACH. for HE alone IS THE ONLY WAY THE ONLY TRUTH and THE ONLY WAY to Eternal life and no one gets to HASHEM/GOD ecept through HIM. so i only ask all who are here if not already to please choose this day to trust in YESHUA HA MASHIACH that HE died in your place to make atonement for your sins that was seperating you from GOD so that by believing this and trusting in HIM that HE rose from the grave that you too by believing in HIM will one day rise from the dead and have eternal life and be saved from The Terrifying Wrath of HASHEM that is to come to all who reject YESHUA as THE MESSIAH of Israel and SAVIOR of The Whole World that HE rightly, truly IS. i ask please do this so that even today will be your *Day of Salvation*
come visit us :)
As an Israeli I can tell you they are an amazing community! Highly educated, speak four languages fluently, great dancers and outstanding citizens!
They're Muslims
@@goodputin4324 and? Does it matter!?
@@goodputin4324 So what? They are not arabs and that makes the difference. Totally different culture.
תראה בתגובות... חלקם לא מפסיק להשמיץ אותנו... תומכים בחמאס, בסוריה וסתם שונאים מבלי לציין מקור.
what about Palestinians?
As you know, Israel's national soccer team captain, Bibras Natkho, is a Circassian Israeli and he's Muslim.
yes je voulais l'écrire ;)
but wait ! some hatred people want to describe israel as a racist country ! captain muslim in israel national team is peaceful ! you ruin the evil nerrative the haters created !
@@mcyoni93 just because the ISRAELI is muslim doesn’t mean it’s nor racist there are lots of Palestinian who are not muslim who are oppressed it’s not got anything to do with religion
I never knew he was a muslim wow 😯
@@שלמה-נ1ח aavti et akinouy ;) bsd
David seems like such a cool person and super knowledgeable about Circassian history. I also love how multilingual the community is 😊
This is super-fascinating...even more than most videos. I did already know about Circassians, but I still learned a lot about Circassians from this video! Those people answering the questions are extremely knowledgeable and can really deliver that knowledge well!
O Son of Israel, why do you join yourself to God as a partner? Why do you equate yourself with God? Isn't this an encroachment on the Rights of God and an insult to God?
Isn't every creature, all of God's creation, God's servants? Isn't God Powerful over every creature? In such a case, isn't every being a servant of God?
O children of Israel, why have you slandered God? If every creature is God's slaves, then how can God call someone gods, sons, children, etc.? Is it fitting for God to tell a lie (lie)? Isn't every creature a slave of God?
O children of Israel, please answer my question honestly. Have any of you ever called your children slaves? Even though your children were stupid, disobedient, sinners, villains, they listened to you only for profit, or because they were afraid of you. Have you ever called them your slaves? - Of course not. How then can God call his children slaves? You talk about God that which is alien to you.
In your Book (Torah), the God of Moses issued a verdict that he was His slave. “Moses, My servant, is dead.” According to your logic, God should have called Moses not not a slave but a super-duper beloved son. But God made a verdict about him that he was only a servant of God.
Why are you equating yourself with God? You will become aware of the fact that you are pagans now. And God does not forgive the Gentiles after death.
@@donttrustthem7601 Salvation* can be found in no other name under Heaven other than THE NAME of Jesus THE CHRIST/BSHEM *YESHUA* HA MASHIACH. for HE alone IS THE ONLY WAY THE ONLY TRUTH and THE ONLY WAY to Eternal life and no one gets to HASHEM/GOD ecept through HIM. so i only ask all who are here if not already to please choose this day to trust in YESHUA HA MASHIACH that HE died in your place to make atonement for your sins that was seperating you from GOD so that by believing this and trusting in HIM that HE rose from the grave that you too by believing in HIM will one day rise from the dead and have eternal life and be saved from The Terrifying Wrath of HASHEM that is to come to all who reject YESHUA as THE MESSIAH of Israel and SAVIOR of The Whole World that HE rightly, truly IS. i ask please do this so that even today will be your *Day of Salvation*
@@donttrustthem7601 God isn't real
They are well-educated.
We Circassians are a peaceful nation, we don't get involved in the politics of others, and one day hopefully all my brave people will return to their homeland, high up in the Caucasus, to Cherkessia!
I wonder if some Circassians have gone back to your homeland in the Caucasus.
@@joselimjoco3367 I went back to Homeland, some did, many can't.
Your people need to start an organisation than can support repatriation.
Until that day comes, you are most welcome in Israel. We are lucky to have you.
You are also Muslims which means you are our brothers in faith. That's a responsibility. This is not just our politics but also yours. You can't say you were genocided but when another nation is being genocided you turn a blind eye. You lived 70 years with your Muslim brothers in ottoman Palestine and then they were killed and displaced. Now you live since 75 years with their killers as they want you to.
I was waiting for this Video literally for years
This is far and away the best video of the last few dozen for instance. Most of the time the questions posed are to people who's minds are closed environments and simply regurgitate their programming. This video is insightful and informative.
even me as an israeli i never met with Circassian guy here , i think they preety much live in their own communities and life
but everyone knows they are extremly nice and peaceful and good behaviour people !
I can't speak for Jews, but a lot of Levantine Arabs (like myself) have Circassian roots.
Well, they are a very small minority. Chances are, you won't meet any the farther you are from the Galilee.
@@komfykoala6083 LOL, you wish.
@@Lagolop You don't even know me. How would you kinow?
@@komfykoala6083 big respect to you my man
Very cool and intelligent people. Great video !
Seem a very educated and cultured lot of people.Wish them all the very best.
That is because they are educated and live in Israel.
@@LagolopTaking credit? Lol
Finally! Waited so much for this episode!
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@@ozgurhetfield Salvation* can be found in no other name under Heaven other than THE NAME of Jesus THE CHRIST/BSHEM *YESHUA* HA MASHIACH. for HE alone IS THE ONLY WAY THE ONLY TRUTH and THE ONLY WAY to Eternal life and no one gets to HASHEM/GOD ecept through HIM. so i only ask all who are here if not already to please choose this day to trust in YESHUA HA MASHIACH that HE died in your place to make atonement for your sins that was seperating you from GOD so that by believing this and trusting in HIM that HE rose from the grave that you too by believing in HIM will one day rise from the dead and have eternal life and be saved from The Terrifying Wrath of HASHEM that is to come to all who reject YESHUA as THE MESSIAH of Israel and SAVIOR of The Whole World that HE rightly, truly IS. i ask please do this so that even today will be your *Day of Salvation*
I play in a folk band and call dances. Usually Scots/Irish and some others. One of the dances we play and call, is called The Circassian Circle. Danced and called it for years. Only now do I know who The Circassian were. Amazing. Thanks.
oh! I'm a Circassian and I'd be really interested in knowing that dance. very very cool!
@@shameljij1224this is not a very good version. The dancers dont teally know it. But the link will give an idea. ruclips.net/video/v_GoW-wQD_s/видео.html
@@scotchandfolk thanks so much for sharing :)
@@shameljij1224 Salvation* can be found in no other name under Heaven other than THE NAME of Jesus THE CHRIST/BSHEM *YESHUA* HA MASHIACH. for HE alone IS THE ONLY WAY THE ONLY TRUTH and THE ONLY WAY to Eternal life and no one gets to HASHEM/GOD ecept through HIM. so i only ask all who are here if not already to please choose this day to trust in YESHUA HA MASHIACH that HE died in your place to make atonement for your sins that was seperating you from GOD so that by believing this and trusting in HIM that HE rose from the grave that you too by believing in HIM will one day rise from the dead and have eternal life and be saved from The Terrifying Wrath of HASHEM that is to come to all who reject YESHUA as THE MESSIAH of Israel and SAVIOR of The Whole World that HE rightly, truly IS. i ask please do this so that even today will be your *Day of Salvation*
LOL, there is no scottish dancing like the Cirtcassians. Where did you get that idea?!
Interesting, please interview Samiratans and Kaarites.
Corey did a video on Samaritans.
@@eve-1 And Karaites (not sure if he gave them a separate video, but he interviewed one or two).
He did one on Crimean Karaites wth a single interviewee.
ruclips.net/video/YVRhy9g2fJ8/видео.html
He also did one which included an interview with a Karaite from Egypt, but I can't find it right now.
@@marksimons8861 Thanks, I missed the one on the Crimean Karaite, I remember the Karaite couple of Egyptian background, I think they lived in Lod or Ramle.
Most of the Karaites in Israel are of Egyptian background.
One of my sisters had a Karaite boyfriend (Egyptian), but he was for all intents and purposes secular. I remember my parents
(who are Orthodox) were very concerned, because he was secular, and then they even consulted with a rabbi to make sure he was considered halakhically Jewish (they actually are, they don't need to "convert" just declare that they accept the Oral Law and they can be married in a rabbinite marriage with other Jews, as far as Orthodox Judaism is concerned). But that was back when this sister was very secular, and she wasn't going to marry him anyway. Now she is a Chabadnikit, of course, ad quite a religious fanatic.
Karaites are also jews but they don't accept talmud only tora
Circassians are a beautiful people! Some of the best people in the world. Diligent, open minded and strong
...and highly intelligent. Circassians were welcomed by the Ottomans to work as administrators instead of the local Arabs, whom they considered unsuitable for government work. This mass migration saved many Circassians from the Russian genocide against them, and many now in former Ottoman lands are descended from those administrators.
@@Gnarlodious Wow! Jews, Circassians, how many other people has Russia tried to Ex term a nate?
Look at all these disgusting sentiments.
Wow! I did not know Cerkez people went so far down and settled there. Eye opening, thanks for sharing.
huge love and respect from america for these quietly wonderful people
Circassians are the last nobles
keep doing that Corey, great job. These vids about minor ethnicities of Israel are amazing
The Circassian Courtship Dance is awesome - it's the males who dance to impress the women, who would become their possible brides.
The male dancers are very athletic and acrobatic - and the women are very attractive.
There are some videos here on RUclips that show these incredible dancers.
Sounds interesting. Human version of a peacock.
It’s fake dances made during Soviet era
@@Sain8music no it’s not. Circassians in the Middle East have never been under soviet rule and they dance the same exact dances. Because our folk dances were not created by soviets, but what the soviets did do is establish dance companies and ensembles with funding etc.
This was so interesting. My favorite part was that I could read the Turkish map to see where they were expelled from 😞, only because I lived in Turkey years ago and am losing my Turkish skills. But the map read, “Black Sea” (Kara Deniz). I love these videos of the minority groups who have been there centuries, and just stayed through the Ottomans and now Israel, and now speak Hebrew, Arabic, and their own tongue. And sometimes English. So cool to learn how they lived there in Ottoman times and now under the Israeli government, and just do their thing, kinda like a lot of other minorities in Israel/Palestine. I hope one day he does a video on the Armenian Christians who have been there for centuries.
That would be very interesting.
Please reply to me, i want to share you some history of the Turkish/Jewish relation/history
Many Zios are unaware that Herzl approached the Ottomans, as well as the Germans and the Russians, with zero success, before the British and the Balfour Declaration that had no legitimacy whatsoever
@@chugalongway01 jews have always lived in Israel before Balfour and after the British backed out of his declaration
In 1937, Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee to the British Peel Commission, Awni Abd al-Hadi stated: “There is no such country as Palestine. ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented.”
@@GigiAbbi-cu9qn It’s funny watching you having to repeat really old and stupid hasbara that only a Zio would say. It’s really funny how you have everything backwards. You are a joke. The first Zios , and even the Polish Father of Israel, from Herzl to Ben Gurion all called it Palestine. Herzl did not know of a territory called the Land Of Israel. He called it Palestine, like like how the Mandate was for a place called Palestine, not one word, is about Israel. You should go back to hasbara school. Your apologia stinks
Big love to Circassians from Armenia. We accepted each other no matter Christian or Muslims.
"Are you Circassian?"
Turkish Bey
"Yes, Effendi."
Lawrence
From "Lawrence of Arabia"
Then he pinch him...
I found it interesting that that many Bosnian descendants integrated into the Circassian community; I knew of the Bosnians (many with surname Bushnaq, as the gentleman mentioned) that regard themselves as Arab or Palestinians, but funny that they didn't preserve and retain a separate Bosnian identity in Israel/Palestine/Syria (they are spread throughout the Middle East too) as the Circassians did, but just assimilated into other communities. Maybe they didn't feel as much pressure to safeguard the idendity as there were still many Bosnians in Bosnia itself.
In north Africa there is a lot of families with Bouchnaq name
@@jubanumidia8460 they got around!
There are Circassianized Bosniaks amongst us in diaspora in the Middle East too. They carry the surname bushnaq too
Hi Corey, love your channel.
And your Hebrew is almost perfect ;)
1_ The Circassians of Palestine were supposed to be exiled from their villages in 1948, but the Jews were concerned about the reaction of the international community so they decided to keep them, as the Israeli historian Benny Morris stated.
2_ in 1967 Israel took over Golan heights, in result 14 Circassian villages including the City of Qunaitra which had a majority Circassian population were completely wiped off existence, Circassians had to leave their villages, homes, possessions to Israeli excavators and flee to Damascus.
Let's ignore that and act as if Israel is such a friendly and diverse country!
Dude, are you seriously saying that a civil war between Arabs and Jews in 1948 represents today's Israel? Come on. Israeli Circassians are very loyal citizens to Israel and wish not to be forced upon a Palestinian national identity
@@jonathanrotem251 Ok then Let today's Israel give back the illegally occupied Golan heights so the real owners can finally go back to their lands.. !! No? They wont? So there's no difference between 1948's 1967' and 2021's Israel
@@tcherkess9695 Israel was willing to negotiate a retreat from the Golan Hights... It was Syria who backed off from the talks. Also, under international law it is justified to hold territory conquered in a defensive war, 1967 was an attempt by 3 countries to destroy Israel (illegal BTW) so I don't see where your anger is coming from.
Ничего Себе wrote:
"in 1967 Israel took over Golan heights, in result 14 Circassian villages including the City of Qunaitra which had a majority Circassian population were completely wiped off existence, Circassians had to leave their villages, homes, possessions to Israeli excavators and flee to Damascus."
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GZ:
Israel’s connection to the Golan Heights is traced back to the Bible. The Golan is the biblical Bashan. In Deuteronomy 4:43, it says, “Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites," one of the Tribes of Israel.
Syria, controlled the Golan Height only for 21 years (1946-1967); from 1948 until 1967, Syria would use its vantage point to attack Israeli villages in the Galilee region.
@@tcherkess9695 Please share the ideal standards Circassians received in Turkey and Arab lands?
Cool, thank you ❤
Loved it.....very informative!!
The captain of Israel national football team is actually one of them
I love how we have the name “football” used in at least 3 different sports! Australian rules football is the funniest thing ever!
The first interviewee was very knowledgeable 👏
Easily one of your best.
Excellent presentation!
Adyghe wey wey greetings from Georgia 👋
Shalom from Israel 🇮🇱to Georgia 🇬🇪
In Balkan and in some regions in Turkey, like Ürgüp Capadoccia, women, my Grandma too, wear or used to wear also white cotton thin scarf like Circassian girl:)
Israel is a mosaic of cultures , Amazing country culturally
A carnival of varieties.
Nation of f int'l squatters more like.
@@huntermosely7420 Why you hate Arabs?
this mosaic was stolen from Palestine, Shlomi you yourself are stealing it dont you see that?
@@MohdHilal
No. I dont...
When exactly was the state of "Palestine" established?
@@huntermosely7420 That would be Palestinians invented by the KGB. Go open a book.
The people of the Caucaus region are in my opinion *the most self preserving,dignified,honourable,trustworthy,bravest and the most loyal people on Earth*
Even though they are generally strict Muslims, *the attributes i mentioned above are whats more important to them*
I hope the world can learn from and help preserve such unique people.
Amen.amin.
❤
wow these people are so knowledgeable about their backgrounds bravo
They are proud of their heritage.
That's because only in Israel they preserve their identity, unlike the (((ARAB))) countries
@@Jewish_Israeli_Zionist did you hear about circassians of jordan ?
Interesting to see groups hardly recognized from outside Eretz Israel to be part of Israel. Very nice video!
I learned in history that they came from Russia they are from different religions and cultures. They are only a few of them. Also from Syria and Turkey. They have also different languages and traditions.
Besides coming from Russia - the Arabs aka 1964 Palestinians also came as refugees from Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon - the Levant.
The Arabs aka 1964 Palestinians adopted the Arab way of life - traditions, rituals and language.
@@avirose194 whether true or not, it is irrelevant to the topic discussed.
What cultures are you dealing with on a daily basis? Sounds like you live in a very diverse area?
Not true, we came from the Caucasus, we Circassians have one religion (90% Muslims) one culture and one language (with several dialects)
They did not come from Russia,they did come from CAUCASIA.Russians are just occupiers like Ottomans in Balkans. Caucasians are not Russians we have our NATIVE cultures. Rus' are foreigners.
As a native speaker I must say that he speaks Hebrew in an eloquent manner.
Arab-Israelis also speak fluent Hebrew.
@@joselimjoco3367 That is not true. Some do but plenty do not speak Hebrew or English at all. Go to Israel and see for yourself as I have seen.
@@Lagolop as a Circassian in Israel I agree with this statement about Arabs.
@@holorenSHORTShasbara
@@ismiismael capybara
At last an intelligent question from Corey - we learned something - most of the other interviews in videos are trashy.
Great content! Would you please do a similar one about Azerbaijanis? I believe they majorly live in Acre.
Are they azerbaijani muslim or jewish?
Extremly interesting! I did not know that.
That says a lot about the true level of your education
What an excellent and informative video !! I enjoyed every second!! My husband's family lived in the Black Sea area until 1914. I wonder if a modern DNA test would show if someone was Circassian?🤔 thanks again Corey for this awesome interview . Can't wait to travel again . This place is going to be top on my list.
The DNA autosomal test identifies more than 60 ethnic groups.
Yes it will.
@@Natan_from_Haifa Salvation* can be found in no other name under Heaven other than THE NAME of Jesus THE CHRIST/BSHEM *YESHUA* HA MASHIACH. for HE alone IS THE ONLY WAY THE ONLY TRUTH and THE ONLY WAY to Eternal life and no one gets to HASHEM/GOD ecept through HIM. so i only ask all who are here if not already to please choose this day to trust in YESHUA HA MASHIACH that HE died in your place to make atonement for your sins that was seperating you from GOD so that by believing this and trusting in HIM that HE rose from the grave that you too by believing in HIM will one day rise from the dead and have eternal life and be saved from The Terrifying Wrath of HASHEM that is to come to all who reject YESHUA as THE MESSIAH of Israel and SAVIOR of The Whole World that HE rightly, truly IS. i ask please do this so that even today will be your *Day of Salvation*
I'm mixed with circassian it gave me Caucasus on 23&me not the specific ethic group or tribe.
I am Circassian, thanks for the video!
I am really happy and a bit jealous of you, about protecting your culture and language. I am a Cirssasian originated Turkish and i would like to know my language but unfortunately in Turkey, there is not much left who knows mother tongue.
That's interesting considering that there are far more of you in Turkey than in Israel.
@@UnownLeaf Yes, here much more of us. Mostly elders know and speak but it is hard to teach and the language is being lost espicially among young generations.. It has many causes like geography, cultural associations etc. For example my family is Circassian but my parents doesn't know it and i had possibility to learn it when i was 15 :(
@@imrana.7654 You could always come for a visit in Israel. I'm sure that someone would be glad to give you lessons.
@@UnownLeaf Thanks, i wanna see Israel and Kfar Kama one day :)
@@UnownLeaf Salvation* can be found in no other name under Heaven other than THE NAME of Jesus THE CHRIST/BSHEM *YESHUA* HA MASHIACH. for HE alone IS THE ONLY WAY THE ONLY TRUTH and THE ONLY WAY to Eternal life and no one gets to HASHEM/GOD ecept through HIM. so i only ask all who are here if not already to please choose this day to trust in YESHUA HA MASHIACH that HE died in your place to make atonement for your sins that was seperating you from GOD so that by believing this and trusting in HIM that HE rose from the grave that you too by believing in HIM will one day rise from the dead and have eternal life and be saved from The Terrifying Wrath of HASHEM that is to come to all who reject YESHUA as THE MESSIAH of Israel and SAVIOR of The Whole World that HE rightly, truly IS. i ask please do this so that even today will be your *Day of Salvation*
The Circassians used to live in the Golan heights of Syria
I never heard of Circassians before. Impressive that they managed to hold on to their culture and language for all these years whilst seemingly maintaining peaceful relations with other groups they live with.
Jews have kept their langauge and culture for 1000s of year. Do you find that impressive?
@@Lagolop I don't understand. This is a video about Circassians and i dont find it necessary or appropriate to compare them to Jewish cultures.
The grand mother of prime-minister of Britain -Boris Johnson is Circassian.
@@platonsocrat7935 Um, I think not.
He had one Turkish GREAT GRANDFATHER who was apparently a traitor. Not Circassian. BTW, he was lynched by a mob.
@@platonsocrat7935 But while he has no Circassian heritage, he does have Jewish ancestry. "2. Boris feels Jewish (sometimes). Johnson’s maternal great-grandfather, Elias Avery Lowe, was a Moscow-born Jew born to a textile merchant. Johnson confirmed this in a 2007 interview for the Jewish Chronicle.“I feel Jewish when I feel the Jewish people are threatened or under attack, that’s when it sort of comes out,” Johnson said. “When I suddenly get a whiff of anti-Semitism, it’s then that you feel angry and protective.”"
היי העמוד מאוד מעניין אותי אבל כשאתה מדבר עם אנשים לא מישראל הכתוביות באנגלית אפשר בבקשה שתהיה אפשרות לכתוביות בעברית
*Well done Channel Host.*
What an excellent Interview the 1st guest offers a really rich concentration of knowledge, history-summary Superb. He has an exceptionally positive personality, i.e., energy frequency and: *"He clearly has a mastery of his Higher-Mind, where Mature Thought and Wisdom resides. This is 🔑 to Inner Harmony and Collective Peace.*
Well done Channel Host!
I find these Peoples to be most desirable "in conversation, intellect, Thought Management, and thus would be desirable friends and neighbors."
*Religions are positive or negative "fully depending on ones Thought Perspective, i.e., the fear and negative, Fundamentalism, is directly associated with the Lower-Mind, the Spiritual and those seeking a balance in Harmony, Peace, Cooperation and Understanding/Compassion and Empathy is directly associated with our Higher Mind.*
The Social Science interpretation aka Sociologist defining.
As I am a Turkish/Circassians (Muslim), I always appreciate Israel how wonderfully provide the most democratic rights to Circassians more than any other countries. Many Circassians are also serves in Isreali army. Circassians are the most loyal peoples in every societys that they live in. God bless Isreal.
in that way they remind me people of Druze
Shame on you! May Allah damn the child-killer İsrael. May Allah strengten the Al-Qassam Brigades
@@circassianmuslimh9948 that’s the reality check my friend. All you know is how to hate to Israel but you never make any empathy for them. I think child killers are the person who through kids in front of front line and supports hozbellah, Al Qassam Brigades or whatever groups. These groups are also terrorize the Muslims. Do u know how many Palestinians are suffering because of them?? If you be good citizen, Israel has no harm to you unless you are not terrorist.
@@yalchenozkan Türkçe konuşacağım kardeşim,
İsrail'den büyük terör devleti mi var? İsrail okullarında neler öğretiliyor hiç biliyor musun? Bilmemen muhtemel. Öğretilen bilgiler Arapların kendilerinin köleleri olmayı kabul edeceği veya yok olacağı üzerine dayalı. İsrail'i kuran Siyonistlerin amacı da zaten Süleyman mabedini yıkıp Sion yıldızını orda dalgalandirmak mesihin gelişinden önce. İsrail o topraklar geldiğinden beridir kan ve gözyaşı eksik olmuyor o coğrafyadan. İsrail askeri dediğin cesaret hapı alamadan tanka binemeyen, 15 asker ile bir sapanlı çocuğa korkarak yaklaşan yüreksizler güruhu. / Evet Hamas'i sonuna kadar destekliyorum, sen ona terörizm dersin ama onlar 1.8 milyarlık islam aleminin yapması gereken şeyi yapmamasından dolayı kendileri üstlendi kutsal topraklardan işgalcileri defetmeyi ve özgür bir Filistin için keza. Şu an İsrail'deki her birey sivil değil askerdir. Orda yaşayan herkes o işgale hâl diliyle destek veriyor demektir. Hayat,iman ve cihaddır, tüm islam beldeleri küffar tasallutundan kurtulana kadar cihada devam.
Circassians have right in jordan
They have private school and center cultural
And many of them are more represented in army and close cercle of the king
Israel do nothing special to circassian
You support israel for nothing
This was cool. Thank you. Its nice to hear about the cultures without the "Palestinian" nonsense.
Ай, Красавчики Наши Родные АДЫГИ Израиля!!! Евреи ценят и дорожат вами, уважают и любят!!! Упсо Братья и Сёстры, что вы у нас есть!!! 🇮🇱 🤝 ❤️🤝🇮🇱
А мы, черкесы , благодарим Всевышнего , что вы есть 😊☝️
@@АртМар-п3з4и 🌺 Марина 🌺 Вселенское Спасибо Родная 🙏❤️
As a pro-Palestinian Chechen/Abaza, I’m very curious as to what the stance of the Circassians and other Caucasians in Israel are in the conflict. I hope they are aware of Israel’s atrocities and side with their Muslim brothers. It’s not even a matter of religion - any HUMAN BEING can tell who is rigjt and who is wrong in this war.
А много мусульман встали на сторону палестинцев, одна демагогия начиная с Эрдогана..
И почему черкессы должны идти против своего государства которое предоставила все права?
Every citizen of Israel wants to prevent future Hamas attacks.
Brothers? What brothers? They are not our brothers. First of all, the only actual brothers we have are Abkhazians because they are related to us. Second of all, we get along with Jews and Israel and that's not going to change because a single particular tribe of Arabs decideded to become self-destructive and in the process destroy others as well.
Now I'm going to say something that is my personal opinion. I will never sympathize with a people which thinks it's okay to murder and rape girls/women. Besides, we don't owe anything to Arabs. Do you hear us complain about Arab countries being on good terms with Russia who almost completely wiped us out? The UAE host Russian criminals, they wash Russian money and collaborate with them politically.
Черкессы- безоговорочные братья Израильтян. Мы живем с ними в добром соседстве. Посещаем их регулярно. Эти люди- великие труженики. Они служат в израильской армии и поэтому вам придется принять тот факт, что это наши друзья... Да, о чудо, мусульмане также служат в армии Израиля. Значит у Израильтян нет проблем с мусульманами. Так почему у вас, кавказцев есть проблема с нами. Народы Кавказа никогда не враждовали с евреями. Кто-то вам намеренно прошептал эту мысль, что вы должны нас ненавидеть.
Хамас убивал и брал в заложники мусульман. Недавно они освободили брата и сестру , они мусульмане.
Так что , повторяя пропалестинскую шарманку, которую вам намеренно завели, не позволит вам понять этот народ. Этот народ и мы связаны узами крови. У нас в Израиле в двух черкесских деревнях настоящий Кавказ. Нравится вам Это или нет.
@@Muki.Kon334 Всё правильно, у меня есть друзья евреи в Израиле и я желаю Израилью мира и процветания ❤️🙌
My grandfather spoke kabardin (one of the Circassian languages) from north Caucasus. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to learn it. However, as a kid I learned kafa and other traditional Circassian dances
Ooh, are you Circassian? I am Circassian also ❤️❤️
I found out that the Circassian capital is what's now called Sochi in Russia which held the Winter Olympic games before...apparently there was a g-cide by the Empire to the Circassians after the war that left them from 100K to just around 98 apparently, with many fleeing to the Ottoman Empire.
I have never thought you would visit our village!!!!
@5:19 "We also have pasta": Pasta stands for something totally different than what pasta means in English.
Please interview Assyrians Aramaeans Bedouins and Yazidies
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there arent really yazidis in israel.
there are few groups and churches who define themselves as assyriacs or arameans.he interviewed jews who came.from assyria and whose parents spoke assyriac (he refered to them as kurdish jews).
@@netanelzion I think I read there was one Yazidi in Israel who was seeking asylum a few years ago
@@guywhousesapseudonymonyout4272 i am not sure if corey can reach her and if its really the theme of his channel but can be interesting
@@netanelzion If I remember correctly, it was a male Yazidi, and I don't know if he got his asylum request, it was at the time of the ISIS massacres of Yazidi
@@netanelzion
I see some Yazidis are requesting that Israel admit them
בית ישראלי ליזידים
Hi Corey, can you make a video were you ask every Sudanese Israeli you have ever met.
Bravo to the first man! Really knowledgeable. Circassians were great soldiers and allies of the Byzantine Empire. Byzantines made them Christians.
Learnt a lot about the Circassian diaspora and its strong people.
As a turkish ,my mother is circassian, good to see in israili circassian protect languega unfortunutly in turkey %90 circassian are assimilated ,become turkfield
Annenin Çerkes, babanın Türk olması ve Türkleşmelerini üzücü bulman beni şaşırttı. Ama senin gibi annesi Çerkes, babası farklı bir milletten biri olarak teşekkür ederim.
@@juhuri6128 üzülemedim sadece , çerkesler bitiyor artık biraz üzücü tabiki türküm ama 10 sene içinde çerkesler tamamen yok olucak biraz üzücü , sende mi türksün,? Nerelisin , tabiki ben türküm ve türk hissediyorum ama çerkes kanımda var
@@xxxxxx-rg6qr Baba Yahudi, anne Çerkes.
@@juhuri6128 baban yahudi ama annen değil, yahudi sayılıyor musun ? Birde nere yaşıyorsun memnun oldum 🇹🇷🇦🇿💝🇮🇱 😇
@@xxxxxx-rg6qr İstanbul'da yaşıyorum ve sayılıyorum tabi. Ama bir o kadar komik bir mesele. Aile için'de hep tartışma konusuydu. Babamlar annenin milleti ne ise milletin o diyorlardı annemler de babanın milleti neyse o diyorlardı. İsrail'den pasaport alırken ikisi de kendi aile isimlerini yazdırmamı istedi sonra. Bir de bir yere giderken ikisi de kendi aile isimleriyle tanıtmamı istiyor kendimi. Bizim community'de ve İsrail devletine göre sayılıyorum ama diğer communityleri bilmiyorum kısaca. Çok değişiyor. Hollanda'da arkadaşlık grubumuz var babası Yahudi olanlar, annesi olmayanlar diye. Orada çok konuşuyoruz bu meseleyi. Ben de memnun oldum ayriyetten.
The great violinist Yehudi Menuhin said his mother was a "Cherkess" so I guess she was of Circassian origin.
most Circassian living in Turkey 2-3 million
My step-Uncle by my 'milk-Aunt'was a turkish Cerkes... very proud people with very interesting languages/dialects. Also very hard working! He once talked Cerkes for me when I was a small child, it was very funny to the ears yet interesting. (He was fluent, don't listen to people lying about Cerkes not being allowed to know their language in Turkey. Lies!)
My cousins, his own children, weren't interested in it at all… such a shame!!!
@@hilalxxx4071 Salvation* can be found in no other name under Heaven other than THE NAME of Jesus THE CHRIST/BSHEM *YESHUA* HA MASHIACH. for HE alone IS THE ONLY WAY THE ONLY TRUTH and THE ONLY WAY to Eternal life and no one gets to HASHEM/GOD ecept through HIM. so i only ask all who are here if not already to please choose this day to trust in YESHUA HA MASHIACH that HE died in your place to make atonement for your sins that was seperating you from GOD so that by believing this and trusting in HIM that HE rose from the grave that you too by believing in HIM will one day rise from the dead and have eternal life and be saved from The Terrifying Wrath of HASHEM that is to come to all who reject YESHUA as THE MESSIAH of Israel and SAVIOR of The Whole World that HE rightly, truly IS. i ask please do this so that even today will be your *Day of Salvation*
Its no lie.
Turkey allows no other languagues
They seem like cool chill people
תודה רבה
Wow, that was unexpected. Has anyone else never heard of these people?
Corey's even interviewed one or two over the years, in Tel Aviv. Not everyone stays in these two villages, or is constrained to do so.
Everyone who lives in Israel has heard of them. Not that many have met one, given how few of them there are.
The Russian Empire will soon collapse and Circassia will be reborn again within the borders of 1763.
There is a big circassian community in Syria
Jordan too.
I like them,I like the Druze as well. How come the other sects under Islam can't be like them? They always want violence
Circassians are some of the best horse riders lol 🐎 ⚔️
Btw its "Cherkesogai" not "Circassogarians" when referring to the Armenian Circassians.
Какой же у них обалденнеший иврит!!! 👍👍👍👍👍Адыгэ уэй, уэй🇮🇱💪❤️🇮🇱
I looked on AirBnB and Google Maps but don't see any places to rent in Kfar Kama. Any suggestions on where to stay?
They mentioned almost everything about themselves but forgot that Circassians call themselves "Adighe" in their own language. Circassian or Cherkes are just exonyms.
0:43 I live where this village used to exit.
Update: no Malaria as of today
Exposed to Islam, “convert or leave the land taking nothing or die” 😔
How did Christianity spread in the Americas and Africa (excluding Ethiopia and Nubia) mind telling me ?
Or in pagan Europe
@@slayer_general4243 Maybe so but they are not doing it NOW and we live in the now.
@@solvingpolitics3172 lol are you Hindu ?
@יואב דניאל bruh
I used to watch that show Keeping Up With The Circassians
It is a shame israel doesn't recognize the circassian genocide.
Yeah. Nobody except Georgia.
did the cherkesses fight for jordan against israel in the past?
The first guy looks like my aunty's italian husband.
Circassians are caucasian, aka white europeans
Actually there might be italian people of circassian ancestry, as circassian were sold as slaves in venice I think. Also someone of the medici clan was partly of circassian ancestry (his mother was a circassian slave).
@@1xyz6992 True but it's also the fact that europeans and caucasians are related because of common neolithic ancestors
November 9 2024..usa..thank so much for the education😍
Circassian /sɜːrˈkæʃən/, also known as Cherkess /tʃɜːrˈkɛs/, is a subdivision of the Northwest Caucasian language family
Are there Circassians making ' aliyah' to their historic homeland in the Caucasus? Or are they fully comfortable in their adopted homeland in Israel much as some Jews do in the United States?
Only few plus Russian state making it more and more difficult for Circassians to return to their ancestral homeland
Circassia from what I read is seemingly a polity from 7th century AD to 1864 when then Russian Empire took over...from what I see the only remaining Circassian entity at the moment is the Adyghe Republic in Russia which has ~25% Circassians and has Adyghe as a language but is seemingly the remains of the Circassian lands as the neighboring krai is now been Russified.
If they don't intermarry, that gene pool is going to get mighty small!
According to the David, the last speaker, the do intermarry as well as finding spouses from other Circassian communities.
I am circassian myself (although not from Israel). As the community in Israel is very small and marriages between circassians there already had took place in the past, the inhabitants have become relatives to some extend. And marrying relatives is strictly forbidden in the circassian culture. Therefore the circassians in Kfar Kama and Reyhaniya marry with circassians outside of Israel. I even know some people who married with people from Kfar Kama and moved there.
@@1xyz6992 Most Circassians are either Arab or Turkish now.
@@1xyz6992what do you think of Circassians living in Israel,not the narrative we've been told about Israel
Though the Jews were everywhere a subject people, and in much of the world persecuted as well, Khazaria was the one place in the medieval world where the Jews actually were their own masters. To the oppressed Jews of the world, the Khazars were a source of pride and hope.
The history of Khazaria presents us with a fascinating example of how Jewish life flourished in the Middle Ages. In a time when Jews were persecuted thruout Christian Europe, the kingdom of Khazaria was a beacon of hope. Jews were able to flourish in Khazaria because of the tolerance of the Khazar rulers, who invited Roman and Persian Jewish refugees to settle in their country. Due to the influence of these refugees, the Khazars found the Jewish religion to be appealing and adopted Judaism in large numbers.
Most of the available information about the Khazars comes from Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Roman, and Slavic sources, most of which are reliable. There is also a large quantity of archaeological evidence concerning the Khazars that illuminates multiple aspects of the Khazarian economy (arts and crafts, trade, agriculture, fishing, etc.) as well as burial practices.
The Khazars were a Turkic people who originated in Central Asia. The early Turkic tribes were quite diverse, although it is believed that reddish hair was predominant among them prior to the Mongol conquests. In the beginning, the Khazars believed in Tengri shamanism, spoke a Turkic language, and were nomadic. Later, the Khazars adopted Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, learned Hebrew and Slavic, and became settled in cities and towns thruout the north Caucasus and modern day Ukraine. The Khazars had a great history of ethnic independence extending approximately 800 years from the 5th to the 13th century.
From about 550 to 630, the Khazars were part of the Western Turkish Empire, ruled by the Celestial Blue Turks (Kök Turks). When the Western Turkish Empire was broken up as a result of civil wars in the middle of the 7th century, the Khazars successfully asserted their independence. Yet, the Kök kaganate under which they had lived provided the Khazars with their system of government. For example, the Khazars followed the same guidelines as the Kök Turks regarding the succession of kings.
At its maximum extent, the independent country of Khazaria included the geographic regions of southern Russia, northern Caucasus, eastern Ukraine, Crimea, western Kazakhstan, and northwestern Uzbekistan. Other Turkic groups such as the Sabirs and Bulgars came under Khazar jurisdiction during the 7th century. The Khazars forced some of the Bulgars (led by Asparukh) to move to modern-day Bulgaria, while other Bulgars fled to the upper Volga River region where the independent state of Volga Bulgharia was founded. The Khazars had their greatest power over other Turkic tribes in the 9th century, controlling Magyars, Pechenegs, Burtas, North Caucasian Huns, and other tribes and demanding tribute from them. Because of their jurisdiction over the area, the Caspian Sea was named the "Khazar Sea", and even today the Turkish, Persian, and Arabic languages designate the Caspian by this term (in Turkish, "Hazar Denizi"; in Arabic, "Bahr-ul-Khazar"; in Persian, "Daryaye Khazar").
The first Khazar capital was Balanjar, which is identified with the archaeological site Verkhneye Chir-Yurt. During the 720s, the Khazars transferred their capital to Samandar, a coastal town in the north Caucasus noted for its beautiful gardens and vineyards. In 750, the capital was moved to the city of Itil (Atil) on the edge of the Volga River. In fact, the name "Itil" also designated the Volga River in the medieval age. Itil would remain the Khazar capital for at least another 200 years.
Itil, the administrative center of the Khazar kingdom, was located adjacent to Khazaran, a major trading center. In the early 10th century, Khazaran-Itil's population was composed mostly of Muslims and Jews, but a few Christians lived there also. The capital city had many mosques. The king's palace was located on an island nearby, which was surrounded by a brick wall. The Khazars stayed in their capital during the winter, but they lived in the surrounding steppe in the spring and summer to cultivate their crops.
The great capital city of modern Ukraine, Kiev, was founded by Khazars. Kiev is a Turkic place name (Küi = riverbank + ev = settlement). A community of Jewish Khazars lived in Kiev.
The Khazars' dual-monarchy was a Turkic system under which the kagan was the supreme king and the bek (bey) was the civilian army leader. The kagans were part of the Turkic Asena ruling family that had provided kagans for other Central Asian nations in the early medieval period. The Khazar kagans had relations with the rulers of the Roman empire, Abkhazians, and Armenians.
To some extent, the Khazarian kings influenced the religion of the Khazar people, but they tolerated those who had different religions than their own, so that even when these kings adopted Judaism they still let Greek Christians, pagan Slavs, and Muslim Iranians live in their domains. In the capital city, the Khazars established a supreme court composed of 7 members, and every religion was represented on this judicial panel (according to one contemporary Arab chronicle, the Khazars were judged according to the Torah, while the other tribes were judged according to other laws).
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"The Khazar people were an unusual phenomenon for Medieval times. Surrounded by savage and nomadic tribes, they had all the advantages of the developed countries: structured government, vast and prosperous trading, and a permanent army.
At the time, when great fanatism and deep ignorance contested their dominion over Western Europe, the Khazar state was famous for its justice and tolerance. People persecuted for their faiths flocked into Khazaria from everywhere. As a glistening star it shone brightly on the gloomy horizon of Europe.
- Raymond Scheindlin, in The Chronicles of the Jewish People (1996)
BULLSHIT
Extremely interesting impressive people. I am more interested to know why Georgians and Armenians refused Islam but Sircacians accepted the religion after long centuries of fighting. And why they were expelled from Russia while Chechnyans and Daghistanis were allowed to stay.
Adopting religions in the region had to do with the interests of the particular rulers rather than its citizens - that's why different Caucasian nations adpoted different religions. As for the second question: Russians wanted to gain a stable access to the eastern coast of the Black Sea that was historically inhabited by Circassians. On the contrary, Chechens and inhabitants of Dagestan inhabited the hardly-accessible montainous areas. That's why only Circassians suffered from ethnic cleansing.
Circassians were the last nation to resist the Russian empire in the Caucasus.
The Russian empire seeing that they are unable to subdue the Circassian people regular way they changed their plans from subduing them and letting them be subjects to the Russian empire, to expelling/exterminating the Circassian people in any way possible. The Russian empire had to put up its largest army that was ever assembled in its Caucasus campaigns
The Circassians can probably relate on some level being exiles and all
Did you say that the Palestinians are exiled from their land like the Jews and the Circassians?
They’re not exiled.
There is 1 million Palestinian Muslims living within Israel and 6 million living in the West Bank and Gaza.
Not quite. Despite rejecting all proposals for partition there was a _de facto partition_ 1948-1967 and many if not most Palestinians are still residing in Palestine.
If you factor in that Jordan was a part of Palestine (as claimed by the late King Hussein) you could say the majority still reside in Palestine.
Were you to go one step further and consider the whole of Palestine and Jordan as "South Syria" (as claimed by the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad) then you could add in both Syria and Lebanon. That would mean nearly all today's Palestinians are still living in their homeland.
@@marksimons8861 So, what do mean by "Palestine"? British Mandate? Judea and Samaria? Israel?
@Shani Israel and which part of it relates to today's Palestine: British Palestine? Judea and Samaria? or Israel?
@@AntisemitismForDummies residents of the british mandate? They probably went back to the UK...
The first has to be a university professor with all that knowledge
You should do Arameans, the closest relatives to the Israelites
Closest relatives to Jews are in Manhattan and Khazaria.
Some in golders green and Shepard's bush.
You will also find all the ethnic Jews in Poland.
@@huntermosely7420 bro, the khazar bs theory had been debunked many times already, there was no mass conversions of Khazaria to Judaism. Judaism was restricted to the king and a small portion of the aristocracy, not the general population. Also, Dna also disproves that, most Jews traced their Dna back to the Levant, not Turkic.
@@huntermosely7420 Guy is correct. The first Israelites were Arameans (Genesis 25:20, Deuteronomy 26:5) and they have shared connections with the other Aramean ethno-religious groups like the Samaritans (John 4:12), Mandaeans, Chaldean Christians, Syriac Christians, etc.
@@huntermosely7420 1. first of all Manhattan is not an ethnicity 2. as far as I know Khazaria was people around the Caucasus region so its not europe anymore and also they were not just Jewish but most of them were Christians and of course Muslims down the line . Too many flaws about this "theory" which was invented around 5 years ago probably by "I'm assuming idk for sure" by far left neo-Nazis and radical Palestinian/arab groups.
@@guyp9596 Anti semites can only repeat the same trash. They are soo jealous of Jews success because all of their cultures are miserable failures.
Two questions:
1. Are they related to Chechens?
2. How come they are Muslims, but still don't have problems with Israel/Jews (usually there's a hostility between them).
1. They’re both North Caucasian, so probably as related as Palestinians and Syrians, for example.
2. Many Muslims support Israel. I don’t, but many do, above all the ones that have the Israeli citizenship.
@@shebsheb8850 👍
Circassian here..
1. No. Although Chechens share many cultural similarities with us (because we are living in the same region) they are not related to us. We are a Northwest-Caucasian people. The only people who are directly related to us are the Abkhazians.
2. I guess because our culture is not really defined by religion. We used to have our own kind of pagan religion before Christianity and Islam and neither Christianity nor Islam really penetrated our cultural identity. Also there were and still are mountain Jews all over the Caucasus and no one was really bothered by them.
@Jewish_Mizrahi_Conservative 1) No, no relation to Chechen ppl, language is completely different, and DNA is different.
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YT didn't show me a notification. Only now I saw your good comment.
11:31 Ryan Reynold
i know what a jew and a israeli is, but what is a palestinian?
Turks desperately tried to populate this empty (300k only) and distant province of their empire. So the Caucasian war was a real opportunity for the to bring few (3 villages) of refugees to here.
4 Arab immigration the place start to be attractive only after the start of Jewish development (zionist project) at the end of 19-beginning of 20 century. Each Jewish immigrant created indirectly 3-4 working places for arab immigrants, so when small Jewish population doubled itself, arab (small as well) trippled.
Hi Corey,
This message is directly for you, since you like to play the “messenger” card.
Please, PLEASE DO NOT REFER TO THE DRUZE especially in the reference of banishing their children for inter-marriage. Make a video to discuss why that’s the case but you obviously don’t know how deep our religious beliefs are.
He did do a video on the Druze,I watched it and never knew they existed especially in Israel
Who is the KING 👑 Of Glory ??? The LORD Mighty in Battle ❤️ YESHUA ❤️ ! I Love ISRAEL ❤️ Shalom ❤️ .
You know that your Yeshua is nothing to the Jews, right? Leave them alone with that kind of BS, FFS!
@@PinkPanthress and you know christianity doesnt say to hate anyone who doesnt believe in jesus but rather advocating your view with calm?
I am first and I am last, and
besides Me there is no G-d
(Isaiah 44:6)
I am first (I have no father)
I am last (I have no son)
besides Me there is no G-d
(I have no brother or co-creator)
Proud to be Circassian. I created account just for this video!
I'd be proud as well. I have been learning a lot about what's happening over there during the Palestinianj/Israeli war. From only watching the news before I was led to believe that only Jews lived in Israel and they didn't like any other people's. But I've learnt they have many people and different religions living peacefully like the Circassians,Druze and Samarites etc. Whenever something like this war happens I like to educate myself before performing an opinion and I think Israel is the good guys for now
@@russe19642 same my beliefs have changed on palestine/israel
There are still Circassian Christians in Russia and elsewhere. Their ancestors strongly and peacefully refused to be forced into becoming Muham-mad-ans. Not all Circassian Christians are Armenians etc.
St Louis they're called Muslim not Mohammadans ignorant racist jerk
@@canmanlamAlright, Californian🤣😂😅😆😄
Muhammadanism is the real racist ideology. You as an American haven't had to live under their racist discrimination and thus you throw round insulting terms to we who know & tell the truth.
@@stlouisix3 I worked in 3 Muslim countries and Muslims without exception were the nicest warmest most hospitable people I have ever encountered. Again ur a racist loser spewing hate . I bet ur the one who has never met a Muslim in ur life.
@@canmanlam well that person is lying. I am circassian myself and noone forced them to converse to islam. Back than they did not fully accept christianity. They still believed in their pre- christian deities. They got influenced by their muslim ottoman neighbors and the majority fully converted when christian Russia, who they fought 100 years against, attacked them. They did not want to share the same religion as their enemies.