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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Some 4,000,000 are Uighurs, descendants of the 9th century Turkic invaders, and 600,000 are Kazakhs, Kirghiz and Tadjiks.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are only Kalmucks and Kirghiz people here.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this collaboration between subject and filmmaker, Hopkins uses Kirghiz people, several of whom endured all five migrations, to reenact the dramatic journey from the freezing Tajikistan mountains-with altitudes of 4,000 meters-to Pakistan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Russia and China have been wrestling for years along the vast, sparsely settled 4,100-mile common frontier, from Kha barovsk in the east to Kirghiz in the west.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was also the tribute money from the Kirghiz nomads, whose flocks and horses were numbered and taxed at a low rate, in return for which they were taken under the protection of China.
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
Their tents are exactly the same as those of the Kirghizes of the Pamir and the Kirghiz Steppe.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
When the sun was at its height I was escorted to the arena by forty-two Kirghizes, who rode beside and behind me.
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
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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