Chebsin (self-adyge) is one of the Adyg tribes that once lived on the coast of the Black Sea in the Anapa region.
Adyghe pronunciation ( ethnonym ) - tsopsine .
Etymology
Tsopsyne, translated from Adyghe, means “shining spring” ( adyg. Tsu - “shining” and psyné - “spring”).
History
In Russian historiography and ethnography of the Caucasus, Chebsin was known until the end of the Russian-Caucasian war. After the end of the Russian-Caucasian war, the Chebsin were no longer met, their dialect of the Adyg language was also lost. Very little information.
1857 - Lyule, Leonty Yakovlevich wrote -
Chebsins , kinsmen of the Zhanayeans, left behind a memory, giving their name to one of the valleys adjacent to the Black Sea, and now merged, as mentioned above, with the natuzhazhtsami.
1871 - Russian historian, academician, Lieutenant-General Dubrovin, Nikolai Fedorovich wrote -
"Among the natukhazhtsev lived three other generations of the Circassian tribe who joined them:
- Hetuk, or Adale, who lived on the Taman Peninsula, and now scattered in different places among the natuzhazhtsev;
- chebein;
- Hegayk, who lived in the vicinity of Anapa, in the basin Chekuray.
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At the end of the Russo-Caucasian War, most of the Natukhais were exterminated, and most of the rest went to Turkey .
Literature
- Adyghe (Circassian) Encyclopedia. Moscow 2006