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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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
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
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
The miserable sheep watched by some nomad Kirghiz will alone forcibly remind you that you are far away from the heights of the South Downs.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
Among them might be noticed the chief of the Kirghizes who lived on the eastern side of Mus-tagh-ata.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
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
The yaks of the Kirghizes are wonderfully sure-footed, and one can ride on them over slippery hillocky ice where a man could not possibly walk.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
The Kirghizes walked on foot and urged the animals up towards the giddy heights.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
The Kirghizes usually protect their eyes by a long lock of horse-hair hanging down over the forehead from beneath the cap, or blacken the eye cavities and nose with charcoal.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
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