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North Caucasus: Circassian girls

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 @ 09:53 UTC

by Onnik Krikorian

Countries:: Russia, Turkey
Topics:: Ethnicity, Gender, History, Photography
Languages:: English

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Les belles Circassiennes du Nord-Caucase...

The Tbilisi Blues pays homage to Circassian girls, apparently among the world's most beautiful women. The blog posts some early photographs of what it calls Moss-haired Girls and says that many were to be found in the harems of Turkish sultans.

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Tia

Ofcourse you wouldn’t have better commnet or historical input about the circassian girls as a someone from Tiblisi.

# 2008-11-19 at 1:29 am

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