Hatuqwai people

The Hatuqwai (self-designation: Adyghe: Хьатыкъуай Hatyqwaj; Arabic: حتوقاي‎; Russian: Хатукай Xatykaj, Гатюкай Gatjukaj, Turkish: Hatukay) are a tribe of the Adyghe people. There is, however, no well-established spelling for their name, and the variants are Hatukay, Hatuqwai, Hetuqwai, Hatukaj, Hatquai, Tatukai, Khatukai, Gatukai, Gatiukai, and Khatoukhay.

The Hatuqwai are considered to be a western Circassian tribal princedom whose homeland lay along the banks of the Kuban River. The Hatuqwai people lived mostly in the mountains between the lower valleys of the Pshish River and the Belaya River. Due to their small size and closeness to Temirgoy tribe, they were considered as one of the subgroups of Temirgoy. Their neighbors were Bzhedugh (West), Abadzehs (South) and, naturally, Temorgoys (East). The most respectable family was Kerkenoko.

After Imperial Russia's conquest of the Caucasus in the 1860s the tribe's homeland was occupied, and its members were scattered among the other Circassian tribes, resulting in the Hatuqwai effectively ceasing to exist as a separate entity.