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UIGHUR, or OUIGHOUR
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UIGHUR, or OUIGHOUR, the name of a Turkish tribe and dynasty who came from the East and ruled in Kashgaria from the loth to the 12th centuries. They used a variety of the Syriac alphabet. (See TURKS.)