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