For over a thousand years, they held the northern Caucasus. Then, in one of the 19th century's most devastating and least-remembered tragedies, they were forced from it almost entirely scattered into a diaspora that today spans more than fifty countries across five continents. This is the Circassian Encyclopedia Podcast, where we sit down with the sources, the field research, and the oral histories to unpack the full story of the Adyghe people
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Ep. 12 — Fifteen Thousand Workers, One Grave: Inside the Kurgans
Scientists estimate that fifteen thousand labourers worked for several decades to build a single tomb in the Kuban, around 3000 BCE. The Russian archaeologist Farmakovsky recorded what was inside it: eleven metres of earth heaped over a chamber ringed by a stone wall, the burial pit lined with wood and roofed with two crossed layers of planks separated by ten centimetres of soil. One man lay curled on his right side, head to the south, facing east, his skeleton coated in dark red pigment. Sew...
16 Oct 2026
Bölüm 8 — Kapıdaki Atlılar: Çerkes İnancının Altı Bin Yılı
Dağlarda bir kilise, bin yıl önce. Kapının önünde at sırtında genç adamlar, bütün ayin boyunca orada bekliyor ve hiçbiri inmiyor. Yasak olduğu için değil: Çerkes soylusu altmış yaşına gelmeden kiliseye girmezdi, çünkü o yaşa kadar hâlâ akınlara çıkıyordu ve o adamın içeride işi olmadığına inanıyordu. Kafkasya’ya gelen her inanç aynı kapıyla karşılaştı. Bu bölümde Çerkes dinî düşüncesinin altı aşamasını izliyoruz. MÖ altıncı binyılın anaerkil döneminden, totemlerden ve ak ile kara ruhlara olan...
16 Oct 2026
الحلقة ١٢ — خمسة عشر ألف عامل وقبرٌ واحد: داخل الكورغانات
يقدّر العلماء أن خمسة عشر ألف عاملٍ اشتغلوا عقوداً عدّة لبناء قبرٍ واحد في الكوبان، نحو عام ٣٠٠٠ قبل الميلاد. وقد دوّن عالم الآثار الروسي فارماكوفسكي ما في داخله: أحد عشر متراً من التراب فوق حجرةٍ يطوّقها جدارٌ حجري، وحفرة دفنٍ مبطّنة بالخشب مسقوفة بطبقتَين متقاطعتَين من الألواح يفصل بينهما عشرة سنتيمترات من التربة. رجلٌ واحد مسجّىً على جنبه الأيمن، رأسه نحو الجنوب ووجهه نحو الشرق، وهيكله مطليٌّ بصبغةٍ حمراء داكنة. خِيط عليه ثمانيةٌ وستون أسداً من ذهب، وثمانيةٌ وثلاثون خاتماً، وعشر زهراتٍ خما...
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