Uyghur Language and Boarding Schools in Kashgar, Mandarin Classrooms and Children Raised by the State
Mahmud al-Kashgari, born near Kashgar in the 11th century, wrote the first great dictionary of the Turkic languages and drew the first known map of the Turkic world. He's said to be buried at Opal, about 50 km south-west of the city, in a tomb the Chinese state lists as a…