Shad Kirman

Shad Kirman stood in the country where the Zelenchuk joins the Kuban, on the northern approaches to the Caucasus. The traveller Evliya Çelebi recorded a fortress called Shad-Kermen at this meeting of rivers. Its setting lay among the lands through which Nogai groups moved and where their relations with neighbouring peoples of the Caucasus included both alliances and trade.