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Word: uighurs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...massive settlement of its Han people among the native inhabitants. In Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, the 120,000 Chinese cadres are much in evidence, and the exiled 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 »

TURKIC 285: Old Uighur. You can't put one past ol' Uighur...

Author: By James Cramer and Richard S. Weisman, S | Title: Some Courses You May Have Missed | 9/29/1976 | See Source »

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