The concept of Circassian beauty is an ethnic stereotype of the Circassian people. A fairly extensive literary history suggests that Circassian women...
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The Fair Circassian is a 1781 tragedy by the British writer Samuel Jackson Pratt. It is an adaptation of the novel Almoran and Hamet by John Hawkesworth...
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The Circassian genocide, or Tsitsekun, was the systematic mass killing, ethnic cleansing, and expulsion of between 95% and 97% of the Circassian people...
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Samuel Croxall (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
2010 The poem appears on pp. 59–71 in a late edition of The Fair Circassian available online at Google Books: Samual Croxall, The Fair Circassian, accessed...
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Black Sea slave trade (redirect from Circassian slave trade)
referred to as "Circassians". In the context of the Circassian slave trade, the term Circassians did not necessarily refer to ethnic Circassians, but was used...
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Circassians in Turkey refers to people born in or residing in Turkey that are of Circassian origin. The Circassians are one of the largest ethnic minorities...
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Elizabeth Farren (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Accidents, Haymarket, 5 August 1780; Almeida in Pratt's The Fair Circassian, 27 November 1781; and the heroines of various comedies and dramas of Mrs. Cowley...
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Parliament of Independence (Circassia) (redirect from Circassians Majlis)
The Circassian Parliament or the Circassian Majlis (Adyghe: Адыгэ Хасэ, romanized: Adıgə Xasə; also called the Parliament of Independence; Adyghe: Шъхьафитныгъэ...
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Circassian nationalism is the desire among Circassians worldwide to preserve their genes, heritage and culture, save their language from extinction, raise...
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1720 in literature (category Years of the 18th century in literature)
Rufus Chetwood – The Voyages, Dangerous Adventures, and Miraculous Escapes of Capt. Richard Falconer Samuel Croxall – The Fair Circassian Daniel Defoe Captain...
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John Hawkesworth (book editor) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
a tragedy based on it by S J Pratt, The Fair Circassian (1781), met with some success. He was commissioned by the Admiralty to edit Captain James Cook's...
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Stephen Poyntz (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
had been a great beauty, addressed by Samuel Croxall in his poem The Fair Circassian. They had two sons, William of Midgham (father of William Stephen...
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1781 in literature (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
Jephson – The Count of Narbonne John O'Keeffe – The Agreeable Surprise Samuel Jackson Pratt – The Fair Circassian Friedrich Schiller – The Robbers (Die...
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Louis Wolheim (category Members of The Lambs Club)
of the Law (1920) - Bridet The Broken Wing (1920–1921) - General Panfilo Aguilar The Claw (1921–1922) - translation from French The Fair Circassian (1921)...
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New Victory Theater (redirect from The New Victory Theater)
long-running transfer of the play Enter Madame in 1921, as well as the farce Getting Gertie's Garter and the comedy The Fair Circassian later the same year. Meanwhile...
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Following the death of their father, two brother battle for the Persian throne. It provided the basis for the tragedy The Fair Circassian by Samuel Jackson...
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Robert Bensley (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
King in The Law of Lombardy by Robert Jephson (1779) Lord Glenmore in The Chapter of Accidents by Sophia Lee (1780) Omar in The Fair Circassian by Samuel...
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Lang's Fairy Books (redirect from The Sister of the Sun)
with the Magic Finger" "Bobino" "The Dog and the Sparrow" "The Story of the Three Sons of Hali" "The Story of the Fair Circassians" "The Jackal and the Spring"...
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assign opus numbers to any of his music. His published output (apart from The Beggar's Opera, Polly and Perviligium Veneris) consists mainly of song settings...
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Jephson (1779) Ali in The Fair Circassian by Samuel Jackson Pratt (1781) Thestor in The Royal Suppliants by John Delap (1781) Marlow in The Metamorphosis by...
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Samuel Jackson Pratt (section The Pupil of Pleasure)
write the epitaph for Mary Robinson's tombstone. The play has never been published. His most successful dramatic work was The Fair Circassian, an adaptation...
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Alexander II of Russia (redirect from Alexander the Liberator)
the Far East, leading to the founding of Khabarovsk and Vladivostok; into the Caucasus, approving plans leading to the Circassian genocide; and into Turkestan...
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Selda Alkor (category Turkish people of Circassian descent)
Turkish actresses in the early 1970s. With marked Circassian characteristics, Alkor was famous for her tall height, natural blonde hair, fair skin, and light...
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displeasure, English Colonial America Samuel Croxall, The Fair Circassian, verse adaptation of the Song of Songs John Gay, Poems on Several Occasions Anthony...
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females who were sold as sex slaves (Cariye) in the Ottoman Empire. Circassian girls were described as fair and light-skinned and were frequently enslaved...
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in the Lord of the Manor Sir Harry Trifle in the Divorce Almoran in The Fair Circassian Prince of Arragon in the piece so named Lord Gayville in the Heiress...
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Those were the days of the fat giantesses, the fair Circassians, the Hottentot Venus, the dwarfs, the living skeletons, the two-headed boys, the performing...
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Lewti (redirect from Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt)
"Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chaunt" is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798. This poem was first published in the Morning Post...
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Dilan Gwyn (category Swedish people of Circassian descent)
two older sisters. Regarding her ethnicity, she has said "I'm Armenian, Circassian, Greek, Kurdish and Turkish." Her father, Orhan Kotan, was a Kurdish writer...
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Amman (category Populated places established in the 8th millennium BC)
century until 1878, when the Ottoman Empire authorities began settling Circassians there, witnessing growth after 1904, leading to the establishment of its...
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