History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back Some features Circassian (Adyghe) civilization and Traditional ethnic Culture Mirzoev A.S. Article is devoted to some features of traditional ethnic culture of Circassians which in the period of the late Middle Ages was widely adopted among all people of the North Caucasus. The wide circulation of the Circassian culture (material and spiritual) among the next people except political hegemony of the Kabardian princes on Central Caucasus Mountains (the XV–XVIII centuries) was promoted by such traditional Caucasian institutes as an atalychestvo, a kunachestvo, hospitality, and also marriage communications between elite of the North Caucasian people. The cultural and civilization originality in this region (Central and North Western Caucasus) developed as a result of interaction of several factors: natural and geographical, foreign policy and some other which led finally to militarization, and also to extreme conservatism and steady reproduction throughout many centuries of the same forms of cultural and public life. Keywords: civilization; ethnic culture; conservatism; knightly epos; eagerness to fight; etiquette; elitism. Contacts: E-mail: marzeibach@mail.ru Pp. 69-76.