He was a custodian of literature, in Manchu, Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan and the Uigur language of Turkestan. |
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We remain concerned by the deteriorating rights situation in Tibet and East Turkestan. |
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Mr Metcalfe, a polyglot Oxford classicist, strikes an exotic figure in what used to be called Turkestan. |
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Most of the wormseed of commerce comes from the steppes of the northern portion of Turkestan whence it finds its way to Moscow and Western Europe. |
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Beluchistan, shown as an independent kingdom along with Afghanistan and Turkestan, in an 1880 map. |
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In autumn 1922 was named the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissar of the Turkestan Soviet Socialist Republic, since February 1924 worked at the Executive Committee and was its representative in Mongolia. |
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The Pax Islamiya that China could be looking for would aim to cut off foreign support to the East Turkestan Groups in order to protect two of its key objectives. |
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Nothing, though, can justify the brutal treatment they mete out to religious and ethnic minorities in Tibet as well as in Inner Mongolia and in Eastern Turkestan. |
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The harsh and paranoid rhetoric hurled from Beijing this week at Tibetans and their exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, is torn straight from the copybook that Lenin used to subjugate Turkestan. |
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A fertile oasis, it was a major trading station on the Silk Road between the Pamir and Kashgar, as well as the centre of the independent kingdoms of Chinese Turkestan. |
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