Uzbeks are a Turkic ethnic group native to wider Central Asia, being the largest Turkic ethnic group in the area.
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Uzbeks are a Turkic ethnic group native to wider Central Asia, being the largest Turkic ethnic group in the area.
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The Pashtuns battled and conquered the Uzbeks and forced them into the status of ruled people who were discriminated against.
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Uzbeks then fled to Afghanistan, then to British India and then to Hijaz where he continued his education in Mecca and Medina and wrote several works on Islam and engaged in anti-Soviet activities.
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Many ethnic Uzbeks moved from Afghanistan to Pakistan owing to the Afghan War.
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Historically, the nomadic Uzbeks who founded the Uzbek Khanate and its other successor states spoke various dialects of Turkic language.
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Uzbeks come from a predominantly Sunni Muslim background, usually of the Hanafi school, but variations exist between northern and southern Uzbeks.
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