Circassians in Jordan
Circassian guards of Jordan, tasked with guarding the Jordanian king | |
| Total population | |
| 100,000–170,000 | |
| Languages | |
| Circassian, Jordanian Arabic | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Abkhazians, Abazins, Chechens |
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Circassians in Jordan (Adyghe: Иорданием ис Адыгэхэр, romanized: Yiordaniyem yis Adıgəxer; Arabic: الشركس في الأردن) are descendants of Circassian refugees who arrived in Jordan in the late 19th century after the Circassian genocide in the 1860s and the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). They settled in Jordan, then a part of Ottoman Syria, in and around Amman and Jerash. Circassians are credited with founding modern Amman as the city had been previously abandoned.