Flag of Abazin,, Abazinians or Abaza people are an ethnic group of the Northwest Caucasus, closely related to the Abkhaz and Circassian people. They live mostly in Turkey, Egypt and in Karachay Cherkessia and Stavropol Krai in the North Caucasus region of Russia. The Tapanta ru:Тапанта, a branch of the Abaza, lived between the Besleney and Kabardian princedoms on the upper Kuban.