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Kirghiz
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kirghiz
English
Etymology
en :bor ru:кирги́з + 1
Pronunciation
en /ˈkɜːɡɪz/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Kirghiz.wav Southern England
en /kɪɹˈɡiːz/ US
en iːz US 2
Noun
*
en Kyrgyz.
Proper noun
en Kyrgyz.
Adjective
-
en Kyrgyz.
en 1987 Arthur C. Hasiotis, Jr. Soviet Political, Economic, and Military Involvement in Sinkiang from 1928 to 1949 https://archive.org/details/sovietpoliticale00hasi_0/ w:Garland Publishing 0-8240-8055-6 87-8368 242282432 102–103 https://archive.org/details/sovietpoliticale00hasi_0/page/102 In September of 1937, two regiments of Soviet Kirghiz troops and one regiment of Russian troops equipped with forty airplanes and twenty tanks entered Sinkiang from Atushe and attacked Pa-ch'u, dividing Ma Hu-shan's 36th Corps into two sections. In October one Kirghiz regiment entered P'i-shan, and Ma Hu-shan fled to India. Kirghiz and Russian forces were now in occupation of Hami and poised to strike at Ho-t'ien in the extreme south of Sinkiang.