Inal the Great

Prince Inal (Инал, Yinal), justly called Inal the Great by Georgian sources was a Circassian prince of the Kabarday tribe who took the throne in the Kabarday region of Circassia in the 15th century and had taken as his goal to unify all of the Circassians. The Circassians boasted their descent from him and regarded him as their progenitor. Prince Inal, surnamed "nef", in the Circassian language means the "squint-eyed", or the squinter was considered by the Circassians as their common ancestor and described him as a mighty khan. After his death in the year 1453, Prince Inal, the valiant and the prudent had succeeded in uniting all of Circassia and Abkhazia into one state.

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