Khatuq
{{Short description|Extinct Circassian tribe}}
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The Khatuq or Adale"Čerkesses". E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913–1936. Volume II. Leiden, 1987. p. 834. 9789004082656Культура адыгов: по свидетельствам европейских авторов. Ельбрус, 1993. ({{Langx|ady|Хьэтӏукъу|translit=Hət'uqw}}) were a Circassian tribe that lived on the Taman Peninsula until it was occupied by Russian troops during the Russo-Circassian War, following which, the tribe was annihilated in the Circassian genocide.{{cite book| author = Волкова Н. Г. | chapter = | chapter-url = | format = | url = | title = Этнический состав населения Северного Кавказа в XVIII — начале XX века | orig-year = | agency = | edition = |location= М. |date = 1974 |publisher= Наука |volume= | pages = 21–22| series = | isbn = | ref = Волкова}}
History
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.Адыгская (Черкесская) энциклопедия. Москва 2006 год.
Mentions
In 1773, German explorer Johann Anton Güldenstädt reported about the Khatuq.{{Cite web|url=http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/Dokumenty/Kavkaz/XVIII/1760-1780/Gildenstedt/text9.htm|title=российская академия наук|website=www.vostlit.info}} After the end of the Russo-Circassian War in 1871, Russian historian and academician Lieutenant General N.F. Dubrovin wrote:{{Cite web|title=ДУБРОВИН Н.ЧЕРКЕСЫ (Адыги)|url=http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/Dokumenty/Kavkaz/XIX/1800-1820/Dubrovin_N/cerkesy_2.htm|url-status=live|accessdate=2012-06-09|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129141452/http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/Dokumenty/Kavkaz/XIX/1800-1820/Dubrovin_N/cerkesy_2.htm|archivedate=2011-11-29}}
" ... 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 ..."