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| | An Important Old Turki Manuscript in the John Rylands Library. By Alphonse Mingana, D.D. |
 | | Of the old Uighur language of the semi-Mongols who inhabited the South-western parts of Manchuria, little is known, owing to the scarcity of inscriptions and of historical and literary compositions referring with certainty to Eastern Mongolia. |
 | | It is, in a strict sense, this last country which gave birth to the famous Gengis Khan, who destroyed the Arab Empire of the East and stifled for a long time the attempts at domination of upstart descendants of some Kurdish and Turkish eponyms. |
 | | From the beginning of 617 A.H. to 619 many important places, such as Bukhara, Samarkand, Khawarazm were successively taken by storm, and some years later, the fall of Baghdad (1258 A.D.) put an end to the Arabo-Persian domination in the South and threatened the Turkish possessions in the North. |
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