Hatukay

Hatukay was a Circassian principality formed in the 1330s after its people separated from neighbouring Chemguy. Its Cherchanuqo princes traced their descent to Hatuqo, whose followers settled near the Taman peninsula.

In 1551, as Crimean Khan Sahib I Giray advanced, the princes led their people into the mountains. The principality later moved between the Belaya and Pshish rivers. During the Russo-Circassian War, a Russian detachment of 1,000 Cossacks attacked a Hatukay village on the Belaya in 1824.