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Guaye

Extinct Circassian tribe From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Guaye[1][2] (Adyghe: Гъоае, гъоайе, romanized: Ğoaye) were one of the Circassian tribes. They were destroyed after the Circassian genocide following the Russo-Circassian War, as not a single member survived.[3]

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In 1857, Leonty Yakovlevich Lyulie gave a description of them, which was the last known mention of them in history.[3][Other sources clearly indicate their existence] In 1930, the ethnographer Leonid Lavrov [ru] noted some Guaye families living in the village of Tkhagapsh [ru].

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