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• Otrar
  ...ainly in the Syr Darya valley and its tributuaries of Keles and Atysi. Its people appear to have [[Turkified]], becoming known as the [[Kankalis|Kangars]]. ...ype of coin, there is an "X" sign on the reverse side; these may originate from the mint of a local ruler. There is a suggestion that the coins of the seco
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• Central Asia–China gas pipeline
  | finish = Horgos, [[Xinjiang]], [[China|People's Republic of China]]<br>(connected to [[West–East Gas Pipeline]]) ...ort|pipeline]] system from [[Central Asia]] to [[Xinjiang]] in the [[China|People's Republic of China]].
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• Kazakhstan–China oil pipeline
  ...import from Central Asia. It runs from [[Kazakhstan]]'s Caspian shore to [[Xinjiang]] in China. The pipeline is owned by the [[China National Petroleum Corpora ...elds to the [[Atyrau]] was completed in 2003. The construction of pipeline from {{Interlanguage link multi|Atasu, Kazakhstan|2=kk|3=Атасу кенті|p
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• Halife Altay
  ...e fled the [[People's Republic of China]], during the [[Kazakh exodus from Xinjiang]], and later wrote about the migration, and about Kazakh culture. He lived [[Category:Writers from Xinjiang]]
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• Qazhyghumar Shabdanuly
  ...language]]. For more than forty years, Shabdanuly was imprisoned by the [[People's Republic of China]] for his political views. ...akh_In_China_Released_In_Almaty/1887778.html 'The Tragic Destiny Of Kazakh People Living Abroad, Written By A Witness]''. Radio Liberty, November 25, 2009.</
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• Qabdesh Zhumadilov
  ...te=24 November 2009 |accessdate=13 December 2010 }}</ref> He was born in [[Xinjiang]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Известный писатель Кабдеш [[Category:Living people]]
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• Nowruz
  ...ttp://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-03/21/c_13790562.htm|title=Xinjiang Uygurs celebrate Nowruz festival to welcome spring|author=|date=|work=Xinhu |[[Mazandaranis]]<ref>[[Nowruz Eve among Mazandarani people]]</ref>
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• Ghaychak
  ...ort fretless neck. It is used by [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]]s and [[Baloch people]], and is similar to [[Sarinda]]. The soundbox is carved out of a single pi ...[[Demographics of Afghanistan|Afghans]], [[Uzbeks]], [[Uyghurs]], [[Tājik people|Tajiks]], [[Turkmens]] and [[Qaraqalpaks]].
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• Quddus Khojamyarov
  ...]] [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] composer from [[Kazakhstan]]. He was named a [[People's Artist of the USSR]]. ...lmaty Region]], Kazakhstan. His father died when he was just 3 months old. From a young age he was distinguished by discipline, commitment, lack of youthfu
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• Kazakhstan
  |established_event8 = Independence declared from the [[Soviet Union]] ...people per sq. mi.). The capital is [[Astana]], where it was moved in 1997 from [[Almaty]], the country's largest city.
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• Samosa
  ...h Africa]] and [[South Africa]]. Due to cultural diffusion and emigration from these areas, samosas in today's world are also prepared in other regions. ...Burma|Burmese]]), ''sambosa'' ({{IPA|[sam͡bosḁ]}}; among the [[Malagasy people|Malagasy]]) or ''chamuça'' (among the [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]-s
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• Lamian
  {{About|the Chinese noodles|the village in Iran|Lamian, Iran|a person from the Greek city of Lamia|Lamia (city)|}} ...e clump of dough, and inserts his fingers into the loop to keep the strand from sticking to itself. Doing this, the pull has doubled the length of the doug
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• Kazakh language
  ...ificant minority language in the [[Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture]] in [[Xinjiang]], [[China]] and in the [[Bayan-Ölgii Province]] of [[Mongolia]]. Kazakh i ...Kazakhs and Kazakh speakers reside in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang.
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• Qoqmončaq language
  |region=[[Xinjiang|Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region]], [[People's Republic of China]] ...200 people in the [[Xinjiang|Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region]] of the [[People's Republic of China]].
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• Kazakh alphabets
  ...[[Altay Prefecture]] and the [[Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture]] of the [[Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/bo ...atinisation (USSR)|Latin alphabet was introduced by the Soviets]] and used from 1927 to 1940 when it was replaced with Cyrillic.
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• Xinjiang Daily
  |name = Xinjiang Daily |owners = [[Communist Party of China|CPC]] Xinjiang Committee
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• Buzkashi
  ...now-your-kokpar-from-your-kyz-kuu-1917860.html "Dom Joly: Know your Kokpar from your Kyz-Kuu"], The Independent: Columnists</ref> '''kupkari'''<ref>[http:/ ...ies in a centuries-long series of migrations that ended only in the 1930s. From [[Scythian]] times until recent decades, buzkashi has remained as a legacy
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• Hunting with eagles
  ...lia]], and [[Xinjiang]], [[China]]. Though these [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] people are most famous for hunting with [[golden eagles]], they have been known to ...n eagle"), while the word for those that use goshawks is ''qarshyghashy'', from ''qarshygha'' ("goshawk").
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• East Turkestan Liberation Organization
  ...[East Turkestan independence movement|Independence]] of [[East Turkestan]] from [[China]] | area = [[Xinjiang]]
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• Terrorism and counter-terrorism in Kazakhstan
  ...khstan|National Security Committee]] (KNB) prevented an Aum Shinrikyo cell from forming in [[Kyzylorda]].<ref name=AMERKHANOV>[http://www.rferl.org/feature ...omb]]ers set off bombs in [[Tashkent]], Uzbekistan. The bombings killed 47 people, 33 of whom were militants and 14 who were bystanders and policemen.<ref na
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• University of Central Asia
  ...ion will occur in [[Porshnev]] village, 16&nbsp;km down the [[Panj River]] from Khorog. ...campus site, is along a bend of the [[Naryn River]], 12&nbsp;km downstream from the city.
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• Sergey Malov
  {{Other people|Malov|Malov}} Malov studied at the [[Kazan Theological Academy]]. He later graduated from the [[Petersburg University]] in Oriental Languages. During his school year
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• Ethnic demography of Kazakhstan
  [[File:Kazakhstan European 2016 Rus.png|thumb|European people in Kazakhstan, 2016.]] ...Uzbeks]], [[German people|Germans]], [[Koryosaram|Koreans]], and [[Uyghur people|Uyghurs]].
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• Chinese people in Kazakhstan
  |group=Chinese people in Kazakhstan ...}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Parham|2004|p=39}}</ref> The modern wave of migration from China only dates back to the early 1990s.<ref name="Sadovskaya2007a">{{harv
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• Dungan people
  ...re sometimes still referred to by this name in Central Asian languages|Hui people}} |group = Dungan people 東干族
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• Kazakhs
  ...[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/uz.html#People CIA estimates] this share declined to 3% in 1996. Official Uzbekistan estim | related =[[Kyrgyz people|Kyrgyz]], [[Karakalpaks]], [[Nogais]], [[Turkic peoples]] and [[Naimans]] o
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• Tatars
  ...n as [[Tartary]]. More recently, however, the term refers more narrowly to people who speak one of the [[Turkic languages|Turkic]]<ref name="global.britannic .... (2006). In ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''. Retrieved October 28, 2006, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9071375</r
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• Volga Tatars
  | related = [[Bashkirs]], [[Chuvash people]] ...Russia in the 13th century), they began to negatively stereotype the Tatar people. Due to these negative stereotypes, some of which persist in modern Russian
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• Uzbeks
  ...zens of [[Uzbekistan]]|Demographics of Uzbekistan|a list of notable people from Uzbekistan|List of Uzbeks}} | image = File:Uzbek man from central Uzbekistan.jpg
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• Uyghurs in Kazakhstan
  |related = [[Chinese people in Kazakhstan]] ...oviet border conflict|border conflict]], the Chinese government closed the Xinjiang&ndash;Kazakh SSR border, both to prevent flight by ethnic minorities, and t
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• Oralman
  ...China]], [[Mongolia]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Russia]], [[Kyrgyzstan]] and also from countries with notable Kazakh minorities: [[Iran]] ([[Iranian Kazakhs]]), ...ekistan and Kyrgyzstan are often found in the country's south, while those from China and Mongolia are concentrated in the east.<ref>{{citation|url=http://
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• Zhuz
  ...itories of southern and southeastern [[Kazakhstan]], northwestern China ([[Xinjiang]]) and parts of [[Uzbekistan]]. ...e Senior ''zhuz'' of the southern and southeastern steppe being set apart from the two other zones by [[Lake Balkhash]].
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• Russians
  ...tica.md/pageview.php?l=en&idc=295&id=2234|title=Moldovan Population Census from 2004|work=Moldovan National Bureau of Statistics|date=|deadurl=yes|archiveu ...rom Russia, or from the former Soviet Union. The latter word refers to all people holding citizenship of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity, and does not
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• Turghun Almas
  | birth_place = [[Kashgar]], [[Xinjiang]] | death_place = [[Urumqi]], [[Xinjiang]]
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• Uyghurlar
  ...rt of China since the [[Han Dynasty]],<ref name="Dillon">{{Cite book|title=Xinjiang: China's Muslim Far Northwest|first=Michael|last=Dillon|publisher=[[Psychol ...reclaim their homeland after 3,000 to 6,000 years".<ref>{{Cite book|title=Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland|author=Starr, S. Frederick|publisher=[[M. E. Sha
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• Uyghur American Association
  ...vists to raise the public awareness of the [[Uyghur people]], such as in [[Xinjiang]], [[China]]. ...anistic, and diverse Uyghur culture and to support the right of the Uyghur people to use peaceful, democratic means to determine their territory's political
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• Hasan Mahsum
  | birth_place = [[Shule County]], [[Kashgar]], [[Xinjiang]] ...and still it has not learned its lesson. Today, it is once again drinking [from] the cup of failure in Afghanistan as it gasps for breath, [looking] to avo
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• Tohti Tunyaz
  .... During this time he reportedly formed a close relationship with former [[Xinjiang]] governors [[Seyfuddin Eziz]] and [[Ismail Emet]], and was involved in the ...came under the influence of western liberal thinking” and “engaged in Xinjiang minority [[Separatism|splittist]] activities”.
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• Abdurashid Khan
  ...|}}), was the ruler of a [[khanate]] in modern-day [[Yarkant County]], [[Xinjiang]] between 1533 and 1560. ...le of the [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] people of northwest China. The Muqam of Xinjiang has been designated by [[UNESCO]] as part of the Intangible Heritage of Hum
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• Isa Alptekin
  | office = Member of the [[Legislative Yuan]] from Xinjiang province ...er. After the communist takeover of [[Xinjiang]], Alptekin went into exile from [[China]] in 1949.
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• Abdullah Abdulqadirakhun
  | birth_place = [[Xinjiang]] [[China]] '''Abdullah Abdulqadirakhun''' is an [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] refugee, who was held for more than seven years in [[Guantanamo Ba
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• Ehmetjan Qasim
  | birth_place = [[Yining City|Yining]], [[Xinjiang]], China ...f>) was a [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] political leader in [[East Turkistan]] (Xinjiang) province of the [[Republic of China (1912–49)|Republic of China]].
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• Sabit Damulla Abdulbaki
  ...st East Turkestan Republic|Turkish Islamic Republic of Eastern Turkestan]] from November 12, 1933 until the republic's defeat in May 1934. ...cite book|author=James A. Millward|title=Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8FVsWq31MtMC&pg=PA203#v=onepage&q=sch
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• Abudureyimu Ajiyiming
  ...egion]] in 1943. Of [[Uyghur people|Uygur]] ethnicity, he is a native of [[Xinjiang]]. ...ntancy positions in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional branch of the [[People's Bank of China]].
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• Jahangir Khoja
  ...Afaqi [[khoja (Turkestan)|khoja]] clan, who managed to wrest [[Kashgaria]] from the [[Qing dynasty|Qing]] Empire's power for a few years in the 1820s. ...age=371|isbn=|pages=|accessdate=2010-11-28}}</ref> The queues were removed from Chinese Muslim prisoners and then sold or given to various owners, one of t
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• Gheni Batur
  ...]]: Ғени Батур) (1902{{spaced ndash}}29 June 1981) is an [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] national hero. After the establishment of the [[People's Republic of China]], he fled to the [[Soviet Union]]. He lies buried in [
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• Tömür Dawamat
  ...] of the [[People's Republic of China]] from 1985 to 1993.<ref>[http://www.xinjiang.gov.cn/10013/10031/10000/10904.htm 历任政府领导]</ref> ...[[Standing Committee of the National People's Congress]].<ref>[http://www.xinjiang.gov.cn/10013/10031/10000/2005/20037.htm 铁木尔·达瓦买提简历]</ref
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• History of Xinjiang
  [[File:Xinjiang Space View.jpg|thumb|400px|A satellite view of the Xinjiang region]] [[File:China-Xinjiang.png|thumb|200px|Xinjiang's location in the [[People's Republic of China]]]]
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• Nur Luke
  [[Category:Converts to Protestantism from Islam]]
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• Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra
  | nationality=[[Uighur people|Uighur]] ...d Kirghiz forces during the [[Battle of Kashgar (1934)]] against the [[Hui people|Chinese Muslim]] [[36th Division (National Revolutionary Army)]]. The Chine
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• Kahar Barat
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• Ismail Tiliwaldi
  |office = Vice Chairman of the [[National People's Congress]] |office1 = Chairman of the [[Xinjiang|Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region]]
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• Maqsud Shah
  | nationality=[[Uighur people|Uighur]] | birth_place=[[Kumul, Xinjiang]]
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• Adel Noori
  | birth_place = [[Xinjiang]], China '''Adel Noori''' is an [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] refugee best known for the more than seven years he was wrongly im
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• Musa Sayrami
  ...Sayramiy|lat=Molla Musa Seyrami}}; 1836&ndash;1917) was a historian from [[Xinjiang]], known for his account of the events in that region in the 19th century, ...erials for the history of the Kazakh Khanates of the 15-18th cc. (Extracts from Persian and Turkic literary works)''), [[Almaty|Alma Ata]], Nauka Publisher
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• Ahmad Tourson
  '''Ahmad Tourson''' or '''Ahmad Abdulahad''' is an [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] refugee unlawfully detained for more than seven years in the [[Uni ...t Serial Number]] 201. Tourson is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the Uighur ethnic group.<ref name=AsiaTimes041104>[http://www.atimes.com/at
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• Ahmed Adil
  ...Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006 Adil is one of approximately two dozen detainees from the [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] ethnic group.<ref>[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FK04Ad02.htm
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• Abu Bakker Qassim
  ...ssim''' is a [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] from [[China]]'s western frontier, [[Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region]] who was held in the [[United States]] [[Guantana ...Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006| author=[[OARDEC]]| publisher=[[United St
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• Kumul Khanate
  |region = [[Xinjiang]] |image_map = China Xinjiang Hami.svg
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• Yulbars Khan
  |office= Governor of [[Xinjiang]] |nationality=[[Uyghur people|Uyghur]]
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• Saifuddin Azizi
  ...s the first chairman of the [[Xinjiang]] Uyghur Autonomous Region of the [[People's Republic of China]]. ...ion]] brought the Communists to power [[Peaceful Liberation of Xinjiang|in Xinjiang]] and in China more generally; at this point, Saifuddin held various posts
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• Fragrant Concubine
  ...Imperial Consort Xiang were different women. [[Han Chinese]] and [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] tellings of the legend of the Fragrant Concubine diverge greatly, ...<ref>{{cite book|last=Holdstock|first=Nick|title=China's Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State|date=30 May 2015|publisher=I. B. Tauris|isbn=
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• Bayanchur Khan
  ...i Tongjian]]'', vol. 53.</ref> was an [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] [[khagan]] from 747 to 759 AD. His official titles were "''Ay Tengrida Qut Bolmish''" and " ...''Ghur'' ("the people"), i.e. " United people " or " free confederation of people (''Erkin Budun''), voluntarily bound into an alliance ".<ref>Element " Ghur
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• Li Sizhong
  ...ood with other non-[[Han Chinese|Han]] tribesmen, while seeking protection from Tang.<ref name=ZZTJ246/> ...g subsequently volunteered to fight the Huigu remnants along with soldiers from the Qibi (契苾), [[Shatuo]], and [[Tuyuhun Kingdom|Tuyuhun]] tribesmen; i
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• Masud Sabri
  | birth_place = [[Yining City|Ili]], [[Xinjiang]] | death_place = [[Xinjiang]]
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• Muhammad Amin Bughra
  | nationality=[[Uighur people|Uighur]] ...mbly (Republic of China)|National Assembly of the Republic of China]] from Xinjiang province
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• Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan
  Satuq was said to have come from [[Artux|Artush]], identified in the 10th century book ''[[Hudud al-'alam]]' ...|Tomb of Sultan Satuk Bughra Khan, the first Muslim khan, in [[Artush]], [[Xinjiang]]]]
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• Timur Beg
  | nationality=[[Uighur people|Uighur]] ...ult&resnum=2&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=timur%20beg%20idgah&f=false|title=Xinjiang: China's Muslim borderland|author=S. Frederick Starr|year=2004|publisher=M.
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• Yugur
  The nationality's current, official name, Yugur, derived from its autonym: the Turkic-speaking Yugur designate themselves as ''Yogïr'' " ...Yugurs are considered to be the descendants of a group of Uyghurs who fled from [[Mongolia]] southwards to Gansu after the collapse of the [[Uyghur Khagana
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• Dolkun Isa
  |occupation = [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] activism |ethnicity = [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]]
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• Hoja-Niyaz
  | birth_place=[[Kumul, Xinjiang|Kumul]] ...lic of Eastern Turkestan]]''' (or '''[[First East Turkestan Republic]]''') from early 1933 until the republic's defeat in 1934.
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• Muhammad Sultan
  ...of his diaries were published in [[Cologne|Koln]] in 1618. In 1605 envoy from [[Abbas I of Persia]] came to Yarkand with offer to conclude an alliance ag ...on the side of Muhammad Sultan and he was declared a Khan after returning from expedition, 3 months later of Abdul Karim Khan's death.<br />
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• Abdullah Bughra
  | nationality=[[Uighur people|Uighur]] ...otecting him. He was killed in 1934 at [[Yarkant County|Yarkand]] by [[Hui people|Chinese Muslim]] troops under general [[Ma Zhancang]]. All of Abdullah's fi
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• Kurban Tulum
  ...tream/ Kurban Tulum and Chairman Mao Zedong Monument, Unity Square, Hotan, Xinjiang, China]</ref><ref>[http://baike.baidu.com/view/1903870.htm Kurban Tulum (Ba ...ter of Xinjiang, by riding a [[donkey]], to show his appreciation of the [[People's Liberation Army]]'s role in the liberation of his area, was herded to [[
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• Adel Abdulhehim
  ...im''' is a citizen of the [[People's Republic of China]] from the [[Uyghur people|Uighur]] ethnic group who was held in [[extrajudicial detention]] in the [[ ...Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
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• Wu'erkaixi
  |image=Wu'erkaixi from VOA (1).jpg ...transliterated '''Uerkesh Davlet'''), commonly known as '''Wu'erkaixi''' (from the Chinese spelling of his name: {{zh|s=吾尔开希|t=吾爾開希|p=Wú'
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• Hotan
  |official_name = <!-- Official name in English if different from 'name' --> |pushpin_map = Xinjiang
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• Abdul'ahat Abdulrixit
  ...m 1993 to 2003. He currently serves as the vice chairman of 11th [[Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference]] (CPPCC). ...in September 1965. He graduated from department of electrical mechanics of Xinjiang Institute of Technology, and holds the title of senior engineer.
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• Ismail Amat
  ...1935) is an [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] politician born in [[Qira County]], [[Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region]]. He joined the work force in [[Hotan]] in 1952, a ...volutionary Committee. From 1979 to 1985 he was the Chairman (Governor) of Xinjiang. In 1988 he became Vice-Chairman of the 7th National Committee of the CPPCC
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• Jian Bozan
  ...vince, Jian became an early supporter of the [[Communist Party of China]]. From 1952 to his death, he was Vice President of [[Peking University]]. Like man
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• Shohrat Zakir
  | office1 = [[Politics of Xinjiang|Chairman]] of the [[Xinjiang|Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region]] | birth_place = [[Yining City|Yining]] (Ghulja), [[Xinjiang]], China
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• Arken Abdulla
  | origin = [[Xinjiang]], [[China]] ...拉|t=艾爾肯•阿布都拉|p=Àiěrkěn Ābùdùlā}}) is an [[Uyghur people|Uyhghur]] musician<ref name="arkenmusic">{{cite web |url=http://arkenmusic.
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• Nur Bekri
  |image = Voa chinese Xinjiang Governor Nur Bekri 7mar10.jpg |office1 = Chairman of the [[Xinjiang|Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region]] People's Government
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• Uyghurs
  |region1={{flagcountry|People's Republic of China}}<br/> <small>([[Xinjiang|Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region]])</small> ...arily in the [[Xinjiang|Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region]] in [[China|the People's Republic of China]], where they are one of 55 [[Ethnic minorities in Chin
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• Dilber Yunus
  ...in [[Kashgar]], [[Xinjiang]] [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] Autonomous Region, [[People's Republic of China|China]]) is a lyric [[soprano]] with [[coloratura]] tec Dilber was admitted in 1976 to the Xinjiang Song and Dance Troupe. Four years later she enrolled in the Department of [
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• Afaqi Khoja revolts
  |place=[[Kashgar]], [[Xinjiang]] ...ngir Khoja]]<ref name="Dillon2014">{{cite book|author=Michael Dillon|title=Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power: Kashgar in the Early Twentiet
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• Sultan Said Khan
  ...n''' ruled the state of [[Yarkent County|Yarkand]] (''mamlakati Yarkand'') from September, 1514, to July, 1533. He was born in 1487 in [[Moghulistan]] and ...s refer to this ruler as '''Abusaid'''.<ref>"The Journey of Benedict Goës from Agra to Cathay" - [[Henry Yule]]'s translation of the relevant chapters of
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• Zeydin Yusup
  |birth_place= [[Xinjiang]] |death_place= [[Baren]], Xinjiang
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• Alimujiang Yimiti
  '''Alimujiang Yimiti''' (Uyghur: Alimjan Yimit) is an [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] [[Chinese house church|house church]] clergyman.<ref name='CA prof ...-09-13}} for "[using the business] as a cover to preach Christianity among people of Uyghur ethnicity".<ref name='BNL 2008-04-09'>{{cite news | title = China
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• Zulfiya Abdiqadir
  | office = Head of the Transport Department of [[Xinjiang|Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region]] | office1 = Bureau Chief of the [[Xinjiang|Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region]] Regional Road Transportation Administrative Bure
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• Transport in Kazakhstan
  ...tan, and the centers of industry and agriculture are spread out and remote from world markets. Therefore, the need for efficient transportation in Kazakhst ...the needs of Soviet planning. This has caused anamolies such as the route from [[Ural'sk]] to [[Aktobe]] now passes briefly through Russian territory. It
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• Dzungarian Gate
  ...an]]. The valley of the Dzungarian Gate (yellow, given its elevation) runs from northwest to southeast through the mountain range that lies between the two ...''The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West'', Thames & Hudson, 2000, p. 44</ref>
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• Gora Alagordy
  | location = [[People's Republic of China|China]]–[[Kazakhstan]] border ...na–Kazakhstan border|international border]] between [[Kazakhstan]] and [[People's Republic of China|China]]. Gora Alagordy has an elevation of {{convert|46
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• Geography of Kazakhstan
  ...north; Russia and the [[Caspian Sea]] to the west; and China's [[Xinjiang|Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region]] to the east. ...ffected agriculture. A much greater agricultural impact, however, has come from the salt- and pesticide-laden soil that the wind is known to carry as far a
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• Daniyal Akhmetov
  ...hstan|Kazakh]] politician who was the 6th [[Prime Minister of Kazakhstan]] from 13 June 2003 to 9 January 2007.<ref name=PROFILE>[http://www.templetonthorp ...se in the government that took office on 10 January 2007. He was dismissed from that post in June 2009. On 11 November 2014 he was appointed as Governor of
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• Dostyk
  ...injiang]], [[China]]. It is a [[port of entry]] (by highway and railroad) from [[China]]. The rail portion serves as an important link in the [[Eurasian ...e side, however, the westward construction of the [[Lanxin railway|Lanzhou-Xinjiang railway]] was stopped once it reached [[Urumqi]] in 1962. Due to the [[Sin
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• Aktobe
  | image_caption = '''Clockwise from top:''' Panoramic view of Aktobe during winter; World War II memorial; Park ...ative center of [[Aktobe Region]]. In 2013, it had a population of 371,546 people. {{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
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• Karkaraly
  ...l through Karkaraly on their way to Siberia. The name Karkaraly is derived from the word "qarqara"- a precious decorative Kazakh headpiece. According to a ...The district has an area of 35 million hectares and a population of 42,500 people. 75% of that population live outside the city limits of Karkaraly. 16 ethn
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• Taraz
  ...r with [[Kyrgyzstan]]. It had a population of 330,100 (1999 Census), up 9% from 1989, making it one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, after [[A ...(1985). ''Journey to the West in the Great Tang Dynasty''. Xi'an: Shaanxi People's Press. p. 27</ref> The [[Talas alphabet]], a variant of the Turkic "runif
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• East Kazakhstan Region
  ...the north and northeast and the [[People's Republic of China]] ([[Xinjiang|Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region]]) in the south and southeast. The easternmost poi |East = [[Xinjiang]], {{flag|China}}
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• Almaty Region
  ...of [[Almaty]]. The region borders [[Kyrgyzstan]] and [[Xinjiang]] in the [[People's Republic of China]]. The region also touches three other regions of Kazak ...Trans-Ili Alatau]] branch of the [[Tian Shan|Tian Shan Mountains]] extends from China and Kyrgyzstan into Almaty Region, along its southern border with Kyr
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• Sayram (city)
  ...[[mosque]] in Kazakhstan,<ref name="blair1992">The monumental inscriptions from early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana. By Sheila Blair. Published by BRILL, 19 ...named Sayram in [[Xinjiang]], China located between [[Kucha]] and [[Aksu, Xinjiang|Aksu]], which, according to local tradition, was founded by captives captur
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• 2003 Zhaosu earthquake
  ...29483.shtml|author=People's Daily Online|date=December 2, 2003|publisher=[[People's Daily]]|accessdate=April 13, 2013}}</ref> [[Category:History of Xinjiang]]
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• Lavr Kornilov
  One story relates how Kornilov was originally born as a Don Cossack [[Kalmyk people|Kalmyk]] named Lorya Dildinov and adopted in [[Ust-Kamenogorsk]], [[Russian ...been a Don Cossack, and that their mother had [[Poles|Polish]] and [[Altay people|Altai Oirot]] descent. (Though their language was not a Kalmyk/Mongolian on
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• Altai Mountains
  ...it merges with the [[Sayan Mountains]] to the east), and extends southeast from there to about 45° N and 99° E, where it gradually becomes lower and merg ...n. The proposed [[Altaic languages|Altaic language family]] takes its name from this mountain range.
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• Dzungaria
  |pic=Xinjiang regions simplified.png |11=[[Dzungar people|Zunghar]]
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• Khüiten Peak
  ...ist">[http://peaklist.org/WWlists/ultras/china2.html "China II: Sinkiang - Xinjiang" Ultra-Prominence Page] Listed here as "Nayramadlin Orgil". Peaklist.org. R ...nt between the Government of the Russian Federation, the Government of the People's Republic of China, and the Government of Mongolia on the determination of
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• Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture
  |settlement_type =<small>[[Sub-provincial city in the People's Republic of China#Sub-provincial autonomous prefecture|Sub-Provincial Aut |image_map = China Xinjiang Ili.svg
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• Irtysh River
  ...Altai Mountains|Mongolian Altai]] in [[Dzungaria]] (the northern part of [[Xinjiang]], China) close to the border with [[Mongolia]]. ...e ''Kara-Irtysh'' (Black Irtysh) in the [[Mongolia]]n Altay mountains in [[Xinjiang]], [[China]], the Irtysh flows northwest through [[Lake Zaysan]] in [[Kazak
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• Pazyryk burials
  ...= 0-8160-4051-6}}</ref> This wealth is evident in the wide array of finds from the Pazyryk tombs, which include many rare examples of organic objects such ...uch as [[Katanda]], [[Shibe, Siberia|Shibe]], and [[Tuekt]], were isolated from external climatic variations by a protective layer of ice that conserved th
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• Tavan Bogd
  | photo_caption = View of Tavan Bogd from Russian Altay ...nt between the Government of the Russian Federation, the Government of the People's Republic of China, and the Government of Mongolia on the determination of
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• Ili River
  .... It flows from the [[Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture]] of the [[Xinjiang|Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region]] to the [[Almaty Province]] in Kazakhstan. ...of which is in Kazakhstan. It takes its beginning in eastern [[Tian Shan]] from the [[Tekes River|Tekes]] and [[Kunges River|Kunges]] (or [[Künes]]) river
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• Terekty River
  ...the very sparsely populated mountainous terrain of the southern part of [[Xinjiang]]'s [[Yumin County]]; by the time it crosses the [[China–Kazakhstan borde ...=11&lat=45.76&lon=82.78&layers=B0000000000F Soviet topo map] about 2 km NE from Peak Kertau (which is marked with its elevation, 3282 m).</ref> After flowi
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• Lake Balkhash
  |caption = View from Space, April 1991 ...|precipitation]], largely vernal snowmelt, from the mountains of China's [[Xinjiang]] region.
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• Eurasian Land Bridge
  ...stan]]. As of November 2007, about 1% of the $600 billion in goods shipped from Asia to Europe each year were delivered by inland transport routes.<ref>Ber ...ian connects Moscow with Russian Pacific seaports such as [[Vladivostok]]. From the 1960s until the early 1990s the railway served as the primary land brid
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• New Eurasian Land Bridge
  ...e Chinese rail system connects with that of [[Kazakhstan]] at [[Dostyk]]. From Kazakhstan, rail links extend into Russia.]] ...rn branch of the [[Eurasian Land Bridge]] rail links running through the [[People's Republic of China]]. The Eurasian Land Bridge is the overland rail link b
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• Silk Road UNESCO World Heritage Sites
  | Caption = Silk Road extending from [[Europe]] through [[Asia]]. Overland routes are red, and the maritime rout ...22, 2014, UNESCO designated 5,000&nbsp;km stretch of the Silk Road network from Central China to the Zhetsyu Region of [[Central Asia]] as a new World Heri
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• Silk Road
  ...ing the [[Eastern world|East]] and [[Western culture|West]] and stretching from the Korean peninsula<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.miho.or.jp/english/membe While the term is of modern coinage, the Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in [[silk]] (and horses) carried out along its length,
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• Benjamin P. Yudin
  ...rical and philological points the richest manuscript heritage of the Uigur people. V.P.Yudin authored over 80 scientific publications in Russian, Uigur and K V.Yudin studied manuscripts unearthed in [[Xinjiang]], northwest China, including: "Chingiz-name" by Utemish-Khodja (16th centu
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• Mongolian wild ass
  ...ses, wolves and khulans in Mongolia. Bi-annual progress reports. available from: www.takhi.org</ref> ...n wild ass population is declining due to [[poaching]] and [[competition]] from grazing [[livestock]]. The [[conservation status]] of the species is evalua
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• Iris lactea
  ...ies Laevigatae]]''. It is a [[rhizomatous]] [[perennial plant|perennial]], from central Asia, with pale blue or violet flowers. It is cultivated as an orna The flowers come in a range of shades from pale blue to violet,<ref name=efloras/><ref name=ClaireAustin/> white<ref n
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• Paeonia anomala
  ...eene) "pink peony", and in China '''新疆芍药''' (xin jiang shao yao), "Xinjiang peony". These plants are ½-1&nbsp;m high, have a thick irregular taproot a ...s consisting of filaments of ½–1&nbsp;cm topped with anthers that ripen from the inside out, open with slits and release yellow pollen. The pollen is re
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• Zhetysu
  ...ters") in [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]] and Persian, to the rivers which flow from the south-east into [[Lake Balkhash]]. ...bounded by the province of [[Semipalatinsk]] on the north, by [[China]] ([[Xinjiang]]) on the east and south, and by the former Russian provinces of [[Fergana
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• Mongol invasion of Central Asia
  ...urs]], [[Karluks|Qarluqs]] and local [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] and [[Tajik people|Tajik]] peoples submitted to the Mongolians. The Uyghur state of [[Gaochan ...0–20), and [[Küchlüg]], a fugitive [[Naimans|Naiman]] prince in flight from [[Genghis Khan]]’s [[Mongols]]. Kuchlug was given shelter by the Qara Khi
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• History of Kazakhstan
  ...tau Mountains and central Kazakhstan. Modern ''[[Homo sapiens]]'' appeared from 40,000 to 12,000 years ago in southern, central, and eastern Kazakhstan. Af ...populations in and out of the [[steppe belt]]. The dry period which lasted from the end of the second millennium to the beginning of the 1st millennium BCE
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• Wusun
  ...] [[Eurasian Steppe|steppe]] people mentioned in [[China|Chinese]] records from the 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD. ...Gansu as vassals of the Xiongnu. In 133-132 BC, the Wusun drove the Yuezhi from the Ili Valley and settled the area. They subsequently became close allies
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• Western Turkic Khaganate
  {{History of Xinjiang}} ...or '''Onoq Khaganate''' ({{zh|c=西突厥 |p=Xi tūjué}}) was a [[Turkic people|Turkic]] [[khaganate]] formed as a result of the wars in the beginning of t
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• Conquest of the Western Turks
  *Strengthened Tang rule of [[Xinjiang]] ...ower,+were+badly+defeated,+and+the+Uighurs,+a+Turkish+tribe,+were+detached+from+them+and&q=heavenly+khan+ruler&hl=en|year=1964|publisher=Macmillan|page=144
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• Qara Khitai
  |status = [[Sinicization|Sinicized]] [[Khitan people|Khitan]] empire<br />in [[Central Asia]] ...who led the remnants of the [[Liao dynasty]] to Central Asia after fleeing from the [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jurchen]] conquest of their homeland in the
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• Saka
  ...akastan]]. Not to be confused with the [[Sakha]], the endonym of the Yakut people of Siberia. For other uses, see [[Saka (disambiguation)]].}} ...ticular branch of the "[[Sarmatians|Scytho-Sarmatian family]]" originating from nomadic Iranian peoples of the northwestern steppe in [[Eurasia]].<ref name
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• Russian conquest of Central Asia
  ...[Khanate of Kokand|Kokand]] <br> [[Turkmens|Turkmen]] tribes <br> [[Kyrgyz people|Kyrgyz]] tribes <br> [[File:Flag of Afghanistan pre-1901.svg|border|23px]] ...forts along the northern border of Kyrgyzstan. 1864-1868 they moved south from Kyrgyzstan, captured Tashkent and Samarkand and dominated the Khanates of K
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• Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881)
  {{See also|Xinjiang under Qing rule|Qing reconquest of Xinjiang}} {{Location map+ |Xinjiang
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• Naimans
  ...ute [[Muslims]] in the [[Hami Oases]]. But his action was opposed by local people and he was later defeated by the Mongols under [[Jebe]]. ...at ''[[khatun]]'' ("queen") [[Töregene Khatun|Töregene]] might have been from this tribe. [[Hulegu]] had a Naiman general, [[Ketbuqa]], who died in the [
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• Visa requirements for Kazakhstani citizens
  ...as for Kazakh citizens were introduced: Australia (Electronic Visitor visa from November 2013). | {{flag|People's Republic of China|name=China}}
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• List of Kazakhs
  ...lso referred to as Ospan) fighter for the freedom of the Qazaq people in [[Xinjiang]] *[[Raiymbek Batyr]] (1705-?), warrior in the 18th century against [[Dzungar people|Dzungar]]s
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