Battle of Qbaada | |||||||||
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Part of the Russo-Circassian War | |||||||||
Franz Roubaud. Reading the manifesto on the end of the Caucasian War by Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Russian Empire | Circassia | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Michael Nikolaevich Dimitri Mirsky Vasily Geyman Vasily Potto Pavel Grabbe Pavel Shatilov Grigory Zass | Tribal leaders | ||||||||
Units involved | |||||||||
Circassian resistance
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Strength | |||||||||
250,000 | 20,000 | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
Unknown but heavy | 20,000 killed | ||||||||
During the Circassian Genocide, about 1,500,000[1][2][3][4] indigenous highland Caucasians were expelled mainly to the Ottoman Empire, and a much smaller number to Persia. An unknown number of those expelled died during deportation.[5] |
The Battle of Qbaada (Adyghe: Ӏаткъуадж зауэ, romanized: 'atqwadj zawə; Abkhaz: Гәбаадәы аибашьра, romanized: Gubaadu aibashra; ‹See Tfd›Russian: Кра́снополя́нская битва) took place in 1864 between the last remains of the Circassians and the Russian imperial forces during the Russo-Circassian War.[6][2][7][8][3][9][4][10] It is widely accepted as the last battle of the war as no other significant battles, other than scattered rebellions, occurred thereafter.[11][12][13][4][14]