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Word: kirghizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dalai Lama's Potala Palace is no more than a well-tended cultural relic. Urumchi, the capital of the Sinkiang Uighur autonomous region, has grown from 80,000 people in 1949 to 800,000 today, of whom 60% are Han, only 40% the traditional nomadic peoples-Uighurs, Kazakhs, Kirghiz and Mongols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Building a New Great Wall | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

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