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  • Ethnic Uzbeks used an oven to make "tandir nan," a traditional bread, in an Uzbek enclave in Osh Wednesday.

    After the Violence in Kyrgyzstan 2010

  • Life here is lived as it has been for millennia, with the yayla dwellers sleeping in black tents woven from goat hair, milking their livestock a couple of times a day, churning butter in goatskins suspended from a wooden tripod, making cheeses mixed with herbs picked from the mountainsides and baking bread in clay tandir ovens sunk into the ground.

    Assyrian International News Agency 2009

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