Circassia

1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

Circassia, is a vast space of ground extended from the Cimmerian Bosphorus and the Fens of Maeotis on the Eastern Shoars of the Euxine Sea, for the space of five hundred Miles; reaching two hundred towards the North. A Country fitly seated for Trade, but possessed by most Barbarous Tartars who delight only in War and roving: they pretend to something of Christianity, having been converted in the eighth Century; but then they never enter the Church till they are old, serving the Devil in their Youth and God in their Age, when they can neither Rob nor Murder any longer. Olearius placeth them upon the Western Shoar of the Caspian Sea. They are subject for the most part to the Grand Czar.