Karachays
the Karachays

In 1831-1860, the Karachays joined the bloody anti-Russian struggles carried out by the Caucasian peoples.

Circass-Abazin and Nogai-Abazin Republics were proposed to produce a region without Karachays dominance.

In May 1999 he won the presidential elections in Karachay-Cherkessia which caused ethnic tension between Karachays and Cherkesses.

It has called for the liquidation of the three Circassian republics (two of which are also shared with Karachays or Balkars) due to "discrimination of Russians".

Karachays were also displaced en masse to the then Soviet-controlled Central Asian states of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan after Joseph Stalin's relocation campaign in 1944.

The city is inhabited by native Cherkess (Circassians), Karachays, Russians, Abaza, Nogays and minorities of Greeks and Armenians.

Not all of the tribes within the confederation were ethnic Circassian: at different times, Nogais, Ossetians, Balkars, Karachays, Ingush, and even Chechens participated as members of the confederation.

Volga Germans and seven (non-Slavic) nationalities of the Crimea and the northern Caucasus were deported: the Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, Karachays, and Meskhetian Turks.