Circassian

Circassian may refer to:

• Pertaining to Circassia, a formerly independent country located in present-day European Russia
  • Circassian coast, on the Black Sea
• Circassians, also known as Adyghe people
  • Circassian beauties, an idealized image of Circassian women
  • Circassian Majlis, a political and resistance council between the leaders of three coastal Adyghe tribes in 1860
  • Circassians in Syria
• Circassian language, a Northwest Caucasian language or subgroup of languages
• Khanjali, a Circassian dagger
• Shashka, a Circassian sword

Other uses

• USS Circassian (1862), a Union Navy steamship in the American Civil War