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Members of this ethnic group were helped in a military campaign by James Stanislaus Bell and other Brits in the Vixen Affair. David Urquhart claimed to have invented a flag with twelve gold stars and three gold arrows on a green field for this ethnic group. The black-and-white Abu Darwish mosque commemorates a member of this ethnic group, which also still contributes the guard for the Hashemite kings of Jordan. A dynasty of this ethnic group, which includes the (*) Adyghe (“ah-dih-GAY”) and Kabardians, replaced the Mamluk Dynasty’s Turkic Bahri dynasty. Dmitri Milyutin led a campaign against this ethnic group (10[1])by the city of Sochi during the reign of Alexander II in what has often (-5[1])been described as genocide. For 10 points, name this ethnic group that was forced to move from the Russian Caucasus into the Middle East. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Circassians [or Cherkess; or Cherkesy; or Circassic; or Adyghe before read; or Adyga before “Adyghe” is read; or Adygekher before “Adyghe” is read; or Kabardian before “Kabardian” is read; or Jarkas; or Jarākisa; prompt on Caucasians]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, World History>
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