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Chokha
High-necked wool coat worn by men in the Caucasus / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Caucasian item of clothing. For the nineteenth-century Indian painter, see Chokha (painter).
A chokha,[lower-alpha 1] also known as a cherkeska,[2] is a woolen coat with a high neck that is part of the traditional male dress of peoples of the Caucasus.[3] It was in wide use among Avars, Abazins, Abkhazians,[4] Azerbaijanis, Balkars, Chechens, Circassians, Georgians, Ingush, Karachays, Kumyks, Nogais, Ossetians, Tats, the peoples of Dagestan, as well as Terek and Kuban Cossacks, Eastern Armenians[4] who adopted it from the aforementioned peoples.