< 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Uighur, or Ouighour, the name of a Turkish tribe and dynasty who came from the East and ruled in Kashgaria from the 10th to the 12th centuries. They used a variety of the Syriac alphabet. (See Turks.)
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