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- noun Plural form of
Usbek .
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Examples
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But one should remember one thing often forgotten: most of the creators of this Islam Renaissance were not Arabs, but Persians, Tajiks and Usbeks: they used milleniium long cultural traditions of ancient agricultural civilizations.
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I wonder what the Canadians would have done, if the south had stayed more or less quiet and the Usbeks under Dostum in the north had started their own war against the "pashtun controlled" Kabul government something that still can happen?
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Stalingrad is Stalin's city and Stalin is the god of these young Kirgises, Usbeks, Tartars,
Stuka Pilot Rudel, Hans-Ulrich 1973
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On the east it has Kashgar; on the west, Samarkand; on the south, the hill country; on the north, in former times there were cities, yet at the present time, in consequence of the incursions of the Usbeks, no population remains.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Ispahan, situated in the centre of the kingdom, was the natural capital of Persia when Turks, Affghans, and Usbeks were her only enemies.
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Catholic ritual measures intervals by "a Miserere," and St Ignatius in his Exercises by "a Pater Noster," so the Turcomans and the Usbeks speak familiarly of the time of a gallop.
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845
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So does Elphinstone, adding that in consequence the Usbeks are "obliged to be content with beef."
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845
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And so of horse-flesh; I believe it is still put out for sale in the Chinese markets; Lieutenant Wood, in his journey to the source of the Oxus, speaks of it among the Usbeks as an expensive food.
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845
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Could I be sure that this word is in the Turkish original, I would boldly pronounce, that the Institutions were framed a century after the death of Timour, since the establishment of the Usbeks in Transoxiana.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Could I be sure that this word is in the Turkish original, I would boldly pronounce, that the Institutions were framed a century after the death of Timour, since the establishment of the Usbeks in Transoxiana.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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