Garachay - Circassian Republic

Garachay - Circassian is one of the republics forming Russian Federation. Republic was created in Soviet period. Most of people speak Garachay (or Karachay) language which belongs to Turkic language family. Republic is situated in the North Caucasus region, where The Great Caucasus range lays. So, the territory of Garachay - Circassian Republic is mostly mountainous and covered with forests. Also, many rivers flow from the area, Teberda, Karachay, Kubay are bigger ones.

People mostly engaged in agriculture. You can meet herds of domestic animals everywhere. Furthermore, horses are the most loved animal, as the Karachays held nomadic and semi nomadic life during the history.

Karachay - Circassian Republic can be proud of the hospitality of its people. They are nice, temperamental and sincere. Talking to and discussing topics with them are pleasure.

Garachay - Circassian Republic has many historical and archaeological monuments. One of them Khumara city place. It is considered that Khumara was one of the cities of Khazar khaganate. It was customs center during khaganate and Khazar military guard was situated there.

The other monument is called Lower Arkhiz. It was Alanian city. Turkic speaking Alans had made big culture in this place centuries ago. The people of Lower Arkhiz city mostly were Christians. So, they constructed three Christian churches in the city. The churches are called by archaeologists symbolically - South, Central and North.