[tessalu]

Circassian - a member of a Caucasian people living in the Caucasus but not speaking an Indo-European language.

I first learned about these people from a Muslim in Jordan, and he told me that his grandfather, how was a Muslim, and was forced to leave the Caucasus region in 1890 in a railroad car, and they were deported to Jordan. He told me that the girls were very fair and prettty and that they got too much attention from the Jordanian men.

[Serpentor]

Circassians were the inspiration for the now disproved theory that "Caucasian" fair skinned people originated in Caucuses - but the designation of Caucasian remained.