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When some tourists asked where to buy legendary Tibetan treasures such as Tianshan snow lotus, saffron crocus, or thousand-year Dzi bead, Phurbu would say frankly, "I won't take you to Bar-skor [Lhasa's old-town shopping street] or private stores, because I can't be sure you'll get authentic goods.
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Xinjiang Tianshan Wool Tex fell 4.8% and apparel maker Fujian Septwolves shed 4.6%.
Asian Shares Rise on Hopes of Resolution to Greece Debt Woes Shri Navaratnam 2011
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Xinjiang Tianshan Wool Tex fell 4.8% and apparel maker Fujian Septwolves shed 4.6%.
Asian Shares Rise on Hopes of Resolution to Greece Debt Woes Shri Navaratnam 2011
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Reuters Paramilitary policemen stood beside an ambulance with a smashed windscreen in front of Tianshan hospital.
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Many Kyrgyz shifted to the western Tianshan area, where they allied themselves with the Qarluqs, Tibetans, and Abbasids against the Uighurs and Tang China.
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It then continued across southern Dzungaria, over the western spur of the Tianshan Mountains to northern West Turkistan, all of which was held by the Qarluqs until the 790s and then the Uighurs, and finally on to Arab-held Sogdia.
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Crossing the farwestern flank of the Tianshan into West Turkistan, they then captured Suyab from the Eastern Turks, Ferghana from the Umayyads, and Tashkent also from the Turgish.
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A profusion of other early documents, both Chinese and central Asian, was recovered in 19078 by Aurel Stein (18621943) and Paul Pelliot (18781945) from a temple library that had been sealed off (c. 1000) at Dunhuang, the point of bifurcation of medieval caravan routes north and south of the Tianshan mountain range.
1908-12 2001
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The Chinese-language Xinjiang Legal Daily said in a report on the Tianshan.net news portal that the six men sentenced Tuesday had been charged with leading and organizing a terror group, manufacturing illegal explosives, intentional homicide, arson and "other crimes."
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U-Pb zircon SHRIMP dating, and muscovite, biotite and K-feldspar 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology indicate that sinistral shear along the Xingxingxia shear zone initiated at about 240-235 million years ago, broadly at the same time as initial formation of the Altyn Tagh fault zone, but later than initiation of dextral strike-slip motion along the ~east-west-trending eastern Tianshan orogenic belt at about 270-245 million years ago.
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