In the late medieval and early modern eras, an enslaved person designated as Circassian was a person held in captivity, with ancestry in the region inhabited by the Circassian peoples.
This attribute refers to persons from the Melkite community, who were Arabic-speaking Christians in the Kingdom of Cyprus and who originated from Syria.
This attribute describes a person held captive, usually in a state of enslavement, from the Emirate of Granada or Maghreb Africa and described in the sources as a 'Moor' or 'Moorish'.