Battle of Qbaada
| Battle of Qbaada | |||||||||
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| Part of the Russo-Circassian War | |||||||||
End of the Caucasian War (1900) by François "Franz" Jean Roubaud | |||||||||
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| Russia | Circassia | ||||||||
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| Unknown | |||||||||
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| Imperial Russian Army | Militias (Abreks, etc.) | ||||||||
| During the Circassian genocide, approximately 1,500,000 Circassians and other Caucasians were expelled from their ancestral homeland. The majority of this figure was displaced to the Ottoman Empire and a much smaller amount to Qajar Iran. An unknown amount of these deportees died before reaching their destination. | |||||||||
Location within Krasnodar Krai Location within the Southern Federal District Location within European Russia | |||||||||
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The Battle of Qbaada took place in today's Krasnaya Polyana on 2 June [O.S. 21 May] 1864. It is widely accepted as the final military engagement of the Russo-Circassian War, as the Circassian people could no longer continue to resist the invading Imperial Russian Army.
A significant development in the wider Caucasian War, it was after the Battle of Qbaada that the Russian Empire annexed Circassia and initiated the Circassian genocide, in which 95% to 97% of the country's population was ethnically cleansed, leading to the creation of the Circassian diaspora.