Circassian/Adyghe alternate migrations

What could be some interesting settings of Adyghe people ? OTL they also went to Middle East, where differnent last names point to Adyhge origin. There is also a Circassian community in Israel.
 
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The Circassians have lived in the Caucasus since 8000 BC, with the first major invasion of their homeland by the Bulgars. Perhaps the Bulgars are a bit more brutal, and drive the Circassians south out of the Caucasus into Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Iran, or other points South?
 
They also fled en masse to the Ottoman Empire, there are Turks of Circassian ancestry.

I have some alternate migration ideas:

1) Egypt/Sudan: a significant part of the Egyptian elite still trace their ancestry back to Circassia (the Mamluks), so I guess they would be sympathetic to the project of resettling their countrymen. As Egypt is already overcrowded, what about Sudan?

2) Western Europe: it would be cool to have a Muslim minority in most of Western European cities during the 19th century. They would follow the pattern of the Poles and Jews.

3) Siberia: second home of every troublesome nation under Russia's hands.
 
Depending on whether the Ottomans are able to successfully crush the Balkan independence movements of the 19th century, you can have the Porte resettle hundreds of thousands of Circassian refugees in Rumelia.
 
Let's say certain things go right and they experience a population boom, around the time of the first Adyghe kingdom ca. 400 BCE... One group of Adyghe/Circassians then moves out of the North Caucasus and onto the Pontic Steppe (the ethnogenesis of the Proto-Indo-Europeans may very well have happened this way, if *PIE influence on/from Kartvelian is any indication); there they adopt a nomadic lifestyle under the influence of Scythians, Sarmatians, or Alans - whichever Iranians are most prominent at the time - and end up folded into one of the hordes invading Rome (assuming Rome still rises).

Bam. *Circassian horse-lords in Pannonia, Transylvania, maybe even the Balkans or Central Asia.
 
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