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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. (15[1])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 by the city of Sochi during the reign of Alexander II in what has often been described as genocide. For 10 points, name this ethnic group that was forced to move from the Russian Caucasus into the Middle East. ■END■ (10[1]0[3])

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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