The Uyghurs, a Turkic people comprising a major part of the population of the Xinjang-Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China, also have sizable communities in the former Soviet Central Asian Republics, especially in Kazakhstan, where they numbered 220,000 in 1999 (altogether the Uyghur population in the newly independent states numbers more than 300,000)...
The 7th International Conference “The cultural heritage of the Mongols: manuscript and archival collections” under the patronage of the President of Mongolia will be held on April 21‒22, 2025. The conference program is now available.