Surviving Destroyed or barely existing The Zhaney (Adyghe: Жьанэ, romanized: Janə; Russian: Жанеевцы, romanized: Žaneevcy), or Jane, were one of the twelve major Circassian tribes, representing one of the twelve stars on the green-and-gold Circassian flag.
The Zhaney were a very powerful Circassian tribe in the past.
[2] They lived the north of the Natukhai tribe's land on the coast of the Black Sea and Azov Sea in Eastern Europe.
A map of the 17th century also shows they lived right by the coast of the lower flow of Kubans, beyond Taman and Atchu.
As a result of the bloody Russian–Circassian War, the Zhaney tribe was almost wholly destroyed, as only 3 families survived, those being Zhane, Zhanov, and Zhenetl'.