Kirghiz
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Kirghizes,
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Kirghiz
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a member of a formerly nomadic people dwelling chiefly in Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan).
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the Turkic language of the Kirghiz.
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Communist Young Pioneers on vacation play volleyball on river banks where Kirghiz nomads used to light their campfires.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sakin Begmatova, Foreign Minister of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic,* began by stating, "We wanted to make sure that no one strangles the Afghans' people's revolution."
From Time Magazine Archive
After 22 days of an infernal journey, they brought us to the depths of Asia, the Kirghiz Steppes.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the rugged Kirghiz steppes they came, from the Hi River basin, from the trackless plains of sprawling Russia and from Moscow.
From Time Magazine Archive
A small Chinese force was despatched against him, and drove the Kirghiz up as far as Fort Kurtka.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
Two Kirghizes go in front with sticks to mark out the way, in order that the horses may not sink in the snow.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
One day the chiefs of the Kirghizes decided to hold a grand festival in my honour.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
Hunger makes them very daring, and they do great damage to the flocks of the Kirghizes, as they will kill even when they do not wish to eat.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
They are charmingly sweet, and it is hard to believe that they will grow up into tall rough half-wild Kirghizes.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
The Kirghizes who should have furnished us with a tent had been delayed on a pass by an avalanche of snow which overwhelmed forty sheep.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
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