 They are also the second largest Adyghe tribe in Palastine (after Shapsugs), largest in Jordan, and the sixth largest in Russia.The vast majority of them live in diaspora in Turkey — about 500,000 people, which are the descendants of those expelled from their homeland as a result of the Russian–Circassian War and Circassian genocide.Since the early 19th century, their dominant religion is Sunni Islam.