Hytuk

The Hytuk were a Circassian people of the Taman peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Their coastal principality was centred on Matrega, a port linking Caffa with the northern Black Sea shore.

The Genoese Ghisolfi family married into the local princes and governed Matrega from 1419; Italian records recognised rulers such as Usdemoroch in 1446 as independent lords. The Ottomans took Matrega in 1482, although local princes retained parts of the peninsula. The surviving Hytuk later merged into the Natukhaj tribe.