Surviving Destroyed or barely existing The Khegayk[1][2] or Shegayk (Adyghe: Хьэкъуайкъу, romanized: Həqwayqu) were one of the Circassian tribes.
All five hundred and fifty houses of the tribe, covered with reeds, fenced, have two doors - one after the other.
However, even if they claim to be Muslims, they deny the resurrection of people on the day of the Judgment... May God forgive us.
In 1724, Xaverio Glavani (French consul in Crimea) at the beginning of 1724, when describing Circassia, wrote: "The Khegayk district has one chief, to which 500 people are subordinate"[7]
As a result of plague epidemics and constant hostilities of the Crimean Khanate, the Russo-Circassian War, they were destroyed, and surviving groups of Khegayks left, joining other Adyghe tribes - Chemguy, Natukhaj, Shapsugs.
"In 1808, Julius Klaproth, in his work - "Travel in the Caucasus and Georgia", reported:[8] "The small Circassian tribe Khegayk now lives not near Anapa, but on the Bugur and its tributaries.