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FEBRUARY 2021

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In the mid-eighth century, the Uyghur people inhabited part of present-day Mongolia. Around A.D. 840 they were attacked from the north by the Kyrgyz, and fled southwest to their current homeland: most live in the Xinjiang (pronounced Shin-jang) province in northwest China.

 

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