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- noun Plural form of
Usbeg .
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Usbegs obtained possession of Badakshan, but were soon expelled, and then the country was generally governed by descendants of the old royal dynasty by the female line.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Udai Singh of Jodhpur, who was born about 1618, and obtained it as a grant for good service against the Usbegs at Kandahar and the
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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Persia were trampled by the Usbegs from the north, and the Turcomans of the black and white sheep.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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Had he been only a soldier he might still have held his own against Afghans and Usbegs from Peshawur to Allahabad.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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Among the first-class passengers I noticed a few Usbegs of the ordinary type, with retreating foreheads and prominent cheek bones, and brown complexions, who were the lords of the country, and from whose families come the emirs and khans of Central Asia.
The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Jules Verne 1866
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The Khanates of Bokhara and Samarkand used to form Sogdiana, a Persian satrapy inhabited by the Tadjiks and afterwards by the Usbegs, who invaded the country at the close of the fifteenth century.
The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Jules Verne 1866
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