Hytuk

The Hytuk or Adale (Adyghe: Хытыку; Italian and Latin: Getici; Tatar: Adale) was a Circassian tribe centered on the Taman Peninsula which their principality lived during the 14th and 15th centuries.

The principality represented one of the major Circassian coastal polities of the late medieval Black Sea region and played a pivotal role in the economic and political relations between Circassia, the Genoese colonies, and the Crimean Khanate.

Most of the Hytuks merged with the Natukhaj tribe. During the Circassian genocide, the Natukhaj were almost completely destroyed, leading to the near disappearance of the Hytuk people as well.

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