
	Where results make sense

Topic: Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

Related Topics

Henderson County, North Carolina

Uyghur

Chinese dynasties

Kirghiz

East Han

Han Dynasty

Manchu

Geography of China

North China Plain

Song Dynasty

Timeline of Chinese history

Table of standard electrode potentials

Battle of Legnica

Electrode potential

Tang Empire

In the News (Sun 15 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Uyghur language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Uyghur is spoken by 8.5 million (2004) in China, mostly in the far western Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
		The Uyghurs are one of the 56 official nationalities in China, and Uyghur is an official language of Xinjiang.
		The dialects of Uyghur identified by the Ethnologue are Central Uyghur, Hotan (Hetian), and Lop (Luobu).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uyghur_language (571 words)

	Xinjiang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Xinjiang borders the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south and Qinghai and Gansu provinces to the southeast.
		The autonomous region of the PRC was established on October 1, 1955, replacing the province.
		Xinjiang's nominal GDP was approximately 187 billion RMB (about 23 billion USD) in 2003, and increased to 220 billion RMB in 2004, due to the "Develop the West" policy introduced by the State Council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xinjiang (2211 words)

	xinjiang-uyghur autonomous region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Xinjiang (新疆 in Pinyin: xin1 jiang1, in Postal Pinyin: Sinkiang, in Wade-Giles: Hsin-chiang, literal meaning: "New Frontier") Uighur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, sometimes known as Chinese Turkestan or Eastern Turkestan (Turkestan also spelt Turkistan).
		The autonomous region was established on October 1, 1955.
		Xinjiang is home to several Muslim Turkic groups including the Uighurs and the Kazakhs.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Xinjiang-Uyghur_Autonomous_Region.html (516 words)

	Uyghur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Uyghurs (also called Uighurs, Uygurs, or Uigurs) (Chinese: 維吾爾 or 维吾尔 in pinyin: wéiwú'ěr) are a Turkic ethnic group of people living in northwestern China (mainly in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where they are the dominant ethnic group together with Han people), Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
		With conversion to Islam the traditional ethnonym Uyghur was dropped and the ancestors of modern Uyghurs identified themselves by the terms Turki and Musulman.
		A small number of Uyghurs also migrated to what is now Gansu provence in China around the late 9th Century, where they converted from Manicheism to Tibetan Buddhism - unlike their kinfolk further west, they did not later convert Islam (and are thus unusual amongst Turkic people).
	hallencyclopedia.com /Uyghur (728 words)

	The Uyghur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Uyghurs is one of the minority groups (see Appendix A) within China which China is quickly trying to obliterate from existence by the infiltration of the Chinese majority group, the Han, into their society.
		Uyghurs who have given in to marrying a Chinese are hated because of their assistance in the furtherment of the assimilation of the Uyghurs.
		They fear that if the Uyghurs and others like them were allowed to cultivate their own culture, they would seek a liberating type of nationalism that would separate the rich lands of Xinjiang from mainland China.
	www.edenroth.com /The-Uyghurs.htm (2066 words)

	Uyghur Photo Site
		Uyghur Region rivers, including the Tarim, Yarkant, Ili, Manas, and Hotan, rise in the mountains and flow from east to west.
		The level land, divided by the Tangri Tagh in central Uyghur Region, comprises Dzungaria, a grazing region to the north, and the Tarim basin (Taklimakan), a vast desert to the south.
		Uyghur are the native people of the region, which known as Xinjiang or Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
	uyghur.50megs.com (434 words)

	THE UIGHURS OF THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION OF CHINA
		THE UIGHURS OF THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION OF CHINA
		Chinese girls that are born in the region are sent to remote villages with a stipend of 300 Yen in order to attract a Uighur mate.
		An estimated 60 percent of the adult population in Xinjiang is illiterate.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/6807/UIGHUR.html (2098 words)

	Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Xinjiang's area is 1,650,000 km² (637,000sq.mi) and the population is estimated at about 19 million.
		Xinjiang has seen a similar struggle to Tibet 's in maintaining its culture.
		Xinjiang is the home of the Lop Nur testing site for China's nuclear weapons program.
	www.therfcc.org /xinjiang-uyghur-autonomous-region-40752.html (476 words)

	Xinjiang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Over the past two millenia the Xinjiang region has been part of the territory ruled by the Turk Empire, Tibet, the Idiqut Uyghur Kingdom, the Yarkand Moghul Khanate, and the Jungars, as well as roughly 125 years under the Han and Tang dynasties of China.
		Xinjiang's nominal GDP was approximately 187 billion RMB (about 23 billion USD) in 2003, and incresed to 2,20 billion RMB in 2004, due to the "Develop the West" policy of the State Council.
		In general, Uyghurs are the majority in western Xinjiang, including the prefectures of Kashgar, Khotan, and Aqsu, as well as Turpan prefecture in eastern Xinjiang.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/X/Xinjiang.htm (1268 words)

	Encyclopedia: Xinjiang
		The Uyghur (also called Uighur, Uygur, or Uigur) [pronounced WEE-gurs] (Simplified Chinese: ç»´å¾å°”; Traditional Chinese: ç¶å¾çˆ¾; pinyin:) are a Turkic-speaking ethnic group living in northwestern China (mainly in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where they are the largest ethnic group together with Han people), Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, and Russia.
		Khotan or Hotan (Uyghur: خوتەن/Hotǝn; Chinese: 和田; pinyin:, formerly: Simplified Chinese: 和阗; Traditional Chinese: 和闐; pinyin:) is an oasis town and a prefecture in the Taklamakan desert that was part of the southern silk road.
		Karamay or Karamai (Uyghur: Ù‚Ø§Ø±Ø§Ù…Ø§ÙŠ; Uyghur (Latin): KÌ¢aramay; Chinese: å…‹æ‹‰ç‘ªä¾; pinyin:, Wade-Giles: Ko-la-ma-i) is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in northwestern China.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Xinjiang (8255 words)

	Uyghur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Of prime concern must be the Uyghur people in their far northwestern homeland of East Turkistan, referred to by the Chinese authorities as the Xinjiang Uyghur...
		Uyghurs (also: Uighurs, Uygurs, Uigurs) (Chinese: 維吾爾 or 维吾尔 in pinyin: wéiwú'ěr) are a Turkic ethnic group of people living in northwestern China (mainly in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where they are the dominant ethnic group together with Chinese Han people), Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
		Huihe and Uyghurs are in fact represented as the same ethnic group by their close pronunciation and numerous anthropological evidences.
	www.wikiverse.org /uyghur (436 words)

	East-West Center: Research Publications: The Xinjiang Conflict: Uyghur Identity, Language Policy, and Political ...
		If the Xinjiang region is to be involved in an initiative against international terrorism, then the United States can urge China and its allies to cultivate the Uyghurs—with their knowledge of the language and cultures of Central Asia—as partners rather than as opponents.
		Uyghur is situated within a hierarchy of languages within Xinjiang, where it has become a supra-regional language but is clearly subordinate to the national Chinese language.
		Uyghur nationalists, whose reinvigorated sentiment is an unintended result of China’s minorities policy, have been distrustful of and dismayed at China’s apparent intentions for development of the region, which appears to bring yet more monoculturalism in the form of Han favoritism and cultural assimilation.
	www.eastwestcenter.org /res-rp-publicationdetails.asp?pub_ID=1589 (1502 words)

	Encyclopedia: Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Xinjiang's area is 1,650,000 km² (637,000 sq.mi) and the population is estimated at about 19 million.
		However, because it is far from eastern China, it has mostly ruled itself, except for parts of the Han, Tang and Mongol dynasties, when it was under direct rule.
		The Qing Empire controlled the territory since the 18th century, and officially established Xinjiang Province ("new frontier") in 1884.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Xinjiang-Uyghur-Autonomous-Region (622 words)

	Xinjiang, China
		This is a vast land of deserts and mountains in the northwest region of the People's Republic of China - a region called the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
		Though this region is primarily desert, the land is highly valued by the Chinese government.
		Xinjiang serves as a nuclear testing ground (with radioactive contamination reported in several Uyghur towns) and satellite launching pad.
	www.verber.com /mark/travel/xinjiang (874 words)

	Uygur (Uighur) of Xinjiang China: Culture language history music dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China, the home of the Uygur people, is also viewed in some detail with overviews, links and images featuring Xinjiang's economy, demography, geography, history, tourist and historical sites.
		Uyghur architecture, particularly their religious architecture is quite fine and as reflective of a glorious past.
		For example from the 1949 to the 1990 census the percentage of the Xinjiang population that was Uighur declined from around 74% to 45%.
	www.uygurworld.com /_sgt/f10000.htm (1623 words)

	Uyghur alphabet, pronunciation and language
		Uyghur is a Turkic language with about 7.6 million speakers in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China and also in Afghanistan, Australia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey, the USA and Uzbekistan.
		Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon alphabet, a runiform script derived from or inspired by the Sogdian script, which was ultimately derived from the Aramaic script.
		From the the 16th century until the early 20th century, Uyghur was written with a version of the Arabic alphabet known as 'Chagatai'.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/uyghur.htm (327 words)

	RFA: RFA: Uyghur Coverage
		Schoolchildren in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are routinely pressed by army-backed production brigades into backbreaking, unpaid labor to help with the yearly cotton harvest, residents and officials say.
		Police in Urumqi, capital of China’s Muslim-majority Uyghur region, have formed a special unit to deal with the relatives and business interests of exiled Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer, according to one of Kadeer’s sons and a local police officer.
		Two Uyghur officials in northwest China have said that forced abortion and conflict over religious issues lay behind the killing of a Communist Party village official earlier this year, which led to the trial and execution of two Uyghur young men for murder, religious extremism and separatism in April.
	www.rfa.org /english/uyghur (472 words)

	Statement By Sokrat Saydahmat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The first regulation of concern is the recent change to Xinjiang University that prohibits the Uyghur language in the classroom.
		For the Chinese government to ban higher level instruction and thought is insulting to the Uyghur people on the grounds of 'improving education.' Such a policy change should be seen for the malevolent act it represents, the beginning of the purposeful destruction of Uyghur language and culture.
		The Uyghur people, language and culture are under attack and the Uyghur people must watch helplessly and alone as the Chinese government authorities continues the devastation.
	www.cecc.gov /pages/roundtables/080502/saydahmat.php (592 words)

	Amnesty International expresses concern over Uyghur refugees / Reports / UHRP - Uyghur Human Rights Project
		The XUAR is the only region of the People's Republic of China where significant numbers of political prisoners are known to have been executed in recent years.
		China's publication earlier this week of a wanted list of ethnic Uyghur "terrorists" abroad and its call for their arrest and extradition appears to be a renewed attempt to curb the political activities of Uyghur activists outside China and garner international support for its ongoing crackdown in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
		Several hundred Uyghurs accused of involvement in such activities have been executed since the mid-1990s, thousands of others have been detained, imprisoned after unfair trials and tortured, and growing restrictions have been placed on the Islamic clergy and the practice of Islam in the region.
	www.uhrp.org /news/reports/amnesty_international_expresses_concern_over_uyghur_refugees (2035 words)

	UIGHUR, UYGUR, UIGUR, UIGHUIR, UIGUIR, WEIWUER < ...
		China is preparing for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the so-called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, which the Uyghur people call East Turkestan, on October 1, 2005.
		China’s current efforts to label Uyghurs as “terrorists” is clearly a part of CCP’s strategy as outlined in a secret document of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party entitled “Defending the Stability of Xinjiang”, adopted on March 19, 1996.
		They must also understand that the Uyghur people’s will to live with dignity cannot be silenced by arresting, torturing and executing them or branding them as “terrorists.” Instead of using oppressive measures to silence the legitimate demands, desires, and the aspirations of the Uyghur people, the Chinese leadership should choose dialogue.
	www.uygur.org /wunn05/09_29.htm (1654 words)

	Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Blogs: Selling Out the Uyghurs
		The massive Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, hundreds of miles beyond an eroded mound that was once the Great Wall, lies southwest of Mongolia, east of Afghanistan and north of the Tibetan plateau.
		In "Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland," Graham Fuller and Jonathan Lippman write that this "U.S. declaration [was] catastrophic" for the Uyghurs.
		The Uyghurs, whose rich pre-Muslim Buddhist culture gave their language (which can be written in Arabic and Roman script) to Genghis Khan's Mongol Empire, were a threat to national cohesion.
	www.muhajabah.com /islamicblog/archives/the_clipboard/010084.php (1979 words)

	Statement on Sentence Reduction for Rebiya Kadeer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Citing good behavior in prison, the Urumqi Intermediate People’s Court of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region today (March 3 Beijing time) informed the Uyghur businesswoman and political activist Rebiya Kadeer of their decision to reduce her eight-year sentence for “supplying state secrets to foreigners” by one year.
		Rebiya Kadeer is now due to be released from the Women’s Prison of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on August 12, 2006.
		She has made significant contributions to women’s rights, in recognition of which she was appointed to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress (CPPCC) and the Xinjiang Region’s People’s Congress.
	www.duihua.org /press/statements/statement_on_kadeer_reduce.htm (410 words)

	Xinjiang Province: China Travel Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region covers over 1,600,000 square kilometers (617,763 square miles), one-sixth of China's total territory, making it China's largest province.
		With a population of over 19 million, Xinjiang is home to 47 ethnic groups including the Uygur, the major ethnic group in Xinjiang.
		Xinjiang has a desert climate with a low annual rainfall of only 150 millimeters (6 inches).
	www.travelchinaguide.com /cityguides/xinjiang (449 words)

	RFA: Uyghur Mayor Dead in Apparent Suicide
		Three officials in the region, whose population comprises mainly Muslim Uyghurs, told RFA’s Uyghur service the mayor of Korla, Mutalip Yusup, appeared to have killed himself.
		Korla is located in the south-central part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China's northwest corner, about 500 kms from the regional capital, Urumqi.
		Yusup, according to his official biography, was born in 1961 in Lop Nur County in Xinjiang.
	www.rfa.org /english/news/politics/2005/09/27/uyghur_suicide (315 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)