During the Russo-Circassian War, after their land was occupied, the surviving Khatuq tribespeople migrated to Natukhaj. During the Circassian genocide, as the Natukhaj were exterminated, most of those survivors were killed. A small portion of them fled to Turkey, where they were assimilated into Turks or other tribes.[4]
Mentions
In 1773, German explorer Johann Anton Güldenstädt reported about the Khatuq.[5] After the end of the Russo-Circassian War in 1871, Russian historian and academician Lieutenant General N.F. Dubrovin wrote:[6]
" ... Among the Natukhaj people lived three other Adyghe tribes, who were destroyed and merged: Chebsin, Khegayk, and Khatuq or Adale, who lived on the Taman peninsula, and now scattered in different places among the Natukhaj people ..."
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^Культура адыгов: по свидетельствам европейских авторов. Ельбрус, 1993.
^Волкова Н. Г. (1974). Этнический состав населения Северного Кавказа в XVIII — начале XX века. М.: Наука. pp. 21–22.
^Адыгская (Черкесская) энциклопедия. Москва 2006 год.
