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- proper noun A city in
Xinjiang ,China .
Etymologies
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Posts on China's Twitter-like microblogs largely appeared to support a harsh government response to the attacks, but censors later banned messages using the word "Kashgar," effectively closing off debate.
NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL WINES 2011
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Posts on China's Twitter-like microblogs largely appeared to support a harsh government response to the attacks, but censors later banned messages using the word "Kashgar," effectively closing off debate.
NYT > Global Home By MICHAEL WINES 2011
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I have seen places that I might not have otherwisesomething that kept recurring to me when I was on the movie set in Kashgar, in remote western China.
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Since Afghanistan is busy with war these days, they had to film it in Kashgar, China, which is in the far west of Xinjiang province.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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I found it whilst looking thru the oldest known Turkish dictionary, Divanü Lugati't-Türk by Mahmud of Kashgar, which is dating from the late 11th century.
Yogrum: a new Turkish blog AYDIN 2008
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I found it whilst looking thru the oldest known Turkish dictionary, Divanü Lugati't-Türk by Mahmud of Kashgar, which is dating from the late 11th century.
Archive 2008-08-01 AYDIN 2008
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Last week, two small blasts hit the city of Kashgar, which is dominated by Uighurs.
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Last week, two small blasts hit the city of Kashgar, which is dominated by Uighurs.
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In a 2008 book called Kashgar: Oasis City on China's Old Silk Road, architect and historian George Michell called the Old City "the best-preserved example of a traditional Islamic city to be found anywhere in Central Asia."
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The writings of Marco Polo mentioned exotic cities such as Kashgar and Tashkurgan, not far from the 4,800-meter-high Khunjerab Pass leading to Pakistan.
The Usual Suspects? 2007
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