Samir Hamidovich Khotko (; born June 27, 1968; Izobilny, Stavropol Krai, Soviet Union) is a Circassian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, and head researcher of the Department of Ethnology and Folk Art of the Adyghe Republican Institute of Humanitarian Research.
He is the author of several monographs and a large number of articles in scientific journals on the topic of the medieval history of the Circassian people, the history of the Circassian diaspora, Circassian Mamluks, Circassian-Slavic ethnocultural ties in the Middle Ages and modern times, as well as source studies. He is the compiler of collections of documents and materials on agriculture, piracy, horse breeding, and the history of individual historical regions of Circassia.
In 1992, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of History of the Adyghe State University (ASU) and in the same year was hired as a researcher in the Department of Ethnology of the Adyghe Republican Institute of Humanitarian Research. At the same time, he became a degree-seeking student at the Department of National History of the Faculty of History of ASU. In 1997, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences on the topic "Circassian Mamluks (13th-18th centuries)".
In July 1997, he participated in the 35th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS) held in Budapest (Hungary), where he presented a report on the topic "Alans in Mamluk Egypt. 13th-15th centuries". In July 2004, he took part in the 37th session of the same congress in Moscow with the report "Military labor migration of the Circassians in the Middle Ages and modern times". Also in July 2006, he participated in the 2nd North Atlantic Fiddle Convention (NAFCo) with the report "Scottish-Circassian ethnographic parallels". He is also the scriptwriter for the documentary-feature film "Circassia" (2007).
In 2017, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Genesis of the Adyghe (Circassian) ethnopolitical space in the 13th-16th centuries: Problems and prospects of research" (specialty 07.00.02 National History).
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