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A Uygur man sits down for a meal during one of the Muslim holidays of Eid in the western China city of Kashgar.

Once part of nomadic Turkic tribes, modern Uygurs have became scholars, administrators, architects, musicians, and physicians, among other trades.

—National Geographic photograph