Kipike

Kipike was a Circassian tribe of the Black Sea coast around the Taman peninsula, recorded in the fifteenth century by the Venetian traveler Giosafat Barbaro, who names the Kippike as Circassians of the Great Sea shore, Christians of the Greek rite. The Taman area, called Matrega by the Genoese, was then ringed by autonomous Circassian tribal principalities.