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...the Syr Darya to the southeast. Throughout most of the medieval and early-modern period it was known as '''Yasi''' or '''Shavgar''' and after the 16th-17th ...he associated weakening of the [[Kazakh Khanate]] benefited small southern states that he was captured. Finally, this city was conquered in Kokand khanate by

...to replace a smaller 12th-century mausoleum of the famous [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] poet and [[Sufi]] mystic,<ref name=roi>{{cite book ...oleum of Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi is situated in the north-eastern part of the modern-day town of Turkestan (formerly known as Hazrat-e Turkestan),<ref name=whs>

Mission of the Institute is strengthening and deepening of the modern fundamental research of history of the statehood of the Republic of Kazakhs ...nature of the leader of the country who has become a significant figure in modern world community, a symbol of statehood and independence of Kazakhstan, who

...lag|Azerbaijan}}<br>{{flag|China}} (by [[Tajiks of Xinjiang|Tajiks]] and [[Turkic peoples]])<ref name="xinhuanet.com">{{cite web|url=http://news.xinhuanet.co ..., ''rōj''}}; {{lang-ae|raocah}}), which means "day" in [[Persian language|Modern Persian]], is descended from [[Proto-Iranian language|Proto-Iranian]] ''*ra

...', '''tumra'''}}; {{lang-tr|'dombıra'}}) is a long-necked [[Turkic people|Turkic]] [[lute]] and a musical [[string instrument]]. ...face of the instrument. While the strings are traditionally made of sinew, modern dombras are usually produced using nylon strings. One of the greatest dombr

The name "Kazakh" comes from the [[Old Turkic language|ancient Turkic]] word ''qaz'', "to wander", reflecting the Kazakhs' [[Eurasian nomads|noma The [[Cuman people|Cuman]] entered the steppes of modern-day Kazakhstan around the early 11th century, where they later joined with

...27}}</ref> and his wife, [[Umai]], the all-nurturing mother goddess of the Turkic Siberians.<ref name=":1" /> The film follows the former nomads<ref>{{Cite w ...Totems is the first solo exhibition Almagul Menlibayeve held in the United States, and the title of the solo exhibition is one of her recent works in 2008 wi

| creator = [[Turkic peoples]] ..., {{lang-ar|منتو}}) are [[dumpling]]s popular in most [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] cuisines, as well as in the [[Caucasian cuisine|Caucasian]], [[Central As

| states=[[Kazakhstan]], [[China]], [[Mongolia]], [[Russia]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Kyrg | fam1=[[Turkic languages|Turkic]]

...States|US]] and in other Western countries. As with other Central Asian [[Turkic languages]], a [[latinisation (USSR)|Latin alphabet was introduced by the S

...a-Ata Protocol]], taking Kazakhstan into the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]].<ref>{{harvnb|Nazarbayev|1998|p=82}}</ref> ...book|author1=Karen Dawisha|author2=Bruce Parrott|title=Russia and the new states of Eurasia: the politics of upheaval|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=

...xt-align:left;">{{legend|#1874CD|Member states}} {{legend|#41A317|Observer states}}</div> |membership = {{unbulleted list |26 member states |7 observer states |{{nowrap|4 observer organisations}}}}

...of a part of [[Central Asia]], corresponding to the South-Eastern part of modern [[Kazakhstan]]. It owes its name, meaning "seven rivers" (literally "seven ...tes-on-the-territory-of-kazakhstan%26catid%3D5:2%26Itemid%3D27 HISTORY OF STATES ON THE TERRITORY OF KAZAKHSTAN ]</ref>

...two different national entities within Russian SFSR, in the territories of modern Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. ...tan''' (or by its Russian spelling, '''Tadzhikistan''') was one of the new states created in Central Asia in 1924 was [[Uzbekistan]], which had the status of

...of Kazakhstan]]. At its height the khanate ruled from eastern [[Cumania]] (modern-day West Kazakhstan) to most of [[Uzbekistan]], [[Karakalpakstan]] and the *[[List of Turkic dynasties and countries]]

|p1 = Turkic Khaganate |common_languages = Turkic

...has been a historical "crossroads" and home to numerous different peoples, states and empires throughout history. ...0,000 to 40,000 years ago in the Karatau Mountains and central Kazakhstan. Modern ''[[Homo sapiens]]'' appeared from 40,000 to 12,000 years ago in southern,

|common_languages = [[Old Turkic language|Old Turkic]] |p1 = Turkic Khaganate

''Wusun'' is a modern pronunciation of the [[Chinese Character]]s '烏孫'. The Chinese name '烏 ...sed on the similarities between the ancestor myth of the Wusun and later [[Turkic peoples]], [[Denis Sinor]] has suggested that the Wusun and/or [[Sogdians]]

...=Suìyè|w=Sui⁴-yeh⁴}}), also known as ''Ordukent'' (modern-day ''Ak-Beshim''), was an ancient [[Silk Road]] city located some 50&nbsp; ...lley]], the capitals are being noted as the westernmost capital of Western Turkic Khaganate.<ref name=Tong>Xue (1992), p. 284-285</ref> There was a sort of [

...iences, Alma-Ata, I960, p. 127 (In Russian)</ref>) were a [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] tribe that heavily influenced northern Chinese politics from the late nin ...umi, Chumuhun and Chuban. These tribes became major players in the later [[Turkic Khaganate]] and thereafter<ref>Gumilev L.N., ''"Hunnu in China"'', Moscow,

*Dissolution of the Western Turkic Khaganate |combatant2=[[Western Turkic Khaganate]]

...ch'')]] for the two-tribe composition, known from the Chinese, Arabic, and Turkic sources.<ref>Yu. Zuev, ''"Early Türks: Sketches of history and ideology"'' ...yphs for "right wing", ''modern Chinese'' Nu-shibi < 'nou siet - piet < ''Turkic'' on_g shadapyt.<ref>Yu. Zuev, ''"The Strongest tribe - Izgil", p

{{About|the Khitan state|the Turkic state|Kara-Khanid Khanate}} ...1234)|Jurchen]] conquest of their homeland in the north and northeast of modern-day [[China]]. The empire was usurped by the [[Naimans]] under [[Kuchlug]]

...articles/yarkand Yārkand]”, Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition</ref> Modern scholars usually use the term Saka to refer to Iranians of the Eastern Step ...y|year=1984|location=Minneapolis|page=506|isbn=0800695003}}</ref> However, modern scholarly consensus is that the Saka language, ancestor to the [[Pamir lang

...𐭩𐭫𐭠𐭭𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩}} ({{transl|pal|ʾylʾnštry}})<br />[[Modern Persian]]: {{lang|fa|ایرانشهر}}</ref><ref name=wiesehofer /> |flag_p3 = Georgian States Colchis and Iberia (600-150BC)-en.svg

...The area was called [[Turkestan]] because most of its inhabitants spoke [[Turkic languages]]. ...rs, the area was 1,545,730 square miles, about half the size of the United States without Alaska. On the east side two mountain ranges project into the deser

...istration of the [[Russian Empire]]. It was located in the western part of modern-day [[Kazakhstan]]. The land spread on 71,000 square kilometers. *[[Turkic peoples]]

...ews]] are descended from the [[Khazars]], a multi-ethnic conglomerate of [[Turkic peoples]] who formed a semi-nomadic [[Khanate]] in the area extending from ...ulated that the Ashkenazi Jews of Europe [[ethnogenesis|originated]] among Turkic refugees who had migrated from the collapsed Khazarian Khanate westward int

|p1 = Turkic Khaganate ...the most powerful [[polity]] to emerge from the break-up of the [[Western Turkic Kaganate]].<ref>{{harvnb|Sneath|2007|p=25}}.</ref> Astride a major artery o

...Malus'' except ''pumila'', up to 7&nbsp;cm diameter, equal in size to many modern [[List of Apple cultivars|apple cultivars]]. Unlike domesticated varieties ...me to forests of ''Malus sieversii''); ''alma'' is also "apple" in other [[Turkic languages]], as well as in [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]. The [[Soviet U

..., and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World]]| author=David W. Anthony| ISBN=9781400831104| publisher=Princeton U * [[Bulgars]] ([[Onogurs]]) 4th–7th century<ref>http://turkic-languages.scienceontheweb.net/Proto_Turkic_Urheimat.html</ref>

While the term is of modern coinage, the Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in [[silk] ...entley, Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 33.</ref>

...ivius.org. Retrieved 2012-05-20.</ref> In Persian antiquity, as well as in modern [[Iran]], it is known as the {{lang|fa|دریای خزر}}, ''Daryā-e Khaz ...uage|Azeri]], it is {{lang|az|Xəzər dənizi}}, and in [[Turkish language|modern Turkish]], it is {{lang|tr|Hazar denizi}}. In all these cases, the second w

Derbent is derived from modern {{Lang-fa|دربند|lit=Barred gate|translit=Darband}} (''dar'' “gate” ...d-i-ancient-city|title=DARBAND (1)|accessdate=29 December 2014}}</ref> The modern name is a [[Persian language|Persian]] word (دربند ''Darband'') meanin

...ds", referring to over 1,100 islands that once dotted its waters; in the [[Turkic languages]] ''aral'' means "island, archipelago". The Aral Sea [[drainage b ...te images taken by NASA in August 2014 revealed that for the first time in modern history the eastern basin of the Aral Sea had completely dried up.<ref name

|child1 = [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] {{Legend|#00008B|Turkic languages}}

...y in the 6th century AD by the northern [[Xiongnu]], who established the [[Turkic Khaganate]] in 552. Later this Khulja territory became a dependency of [[Dz ...inese !! Turki (Uyghur) name<ref>As per Kim (2004), pp. 54, 229</ref>!! Modern name of the location<ref>Info from [[Chinese Wikipedia]] and [http://www.xj

...Brazil, [[Canberra]] in Australia, and [[Washington, D.C.]] in the United States.<ref name="Astana">{{cite web|publisher=The Guardian |title=Astana, Kazakhs ...nd illegal – have been attracted from across Kazakhstan and neighbouring states such as Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and Astana is a magnet for young profess

...Mahmûd, 1982–85, R. Dankoff and J. Kelly (transl.), ''Compendium of the Turkic Dialects (Diwân lughāt al-Turk)'', Sources of Oriental Languages and Lite ...Persian Achaemenid Empire, ca 500 BC. Sayram is not named on this map]]The modern city of Sayram celebrated its 3,000th year<ref>Sayram Region, 75th Annivers

...aanxi People's Press. p. 27</ref> The [[Talas alphabet]], a variant of the Turkic "runiform" [[Orkhon script]], is named for the town. Talas secured a place ...ortress of [[Battle of Zhizhi|Zhizhi]] that briefly existed at the site of modern-day Taraz in the 1st century BCE.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} A c

..., traces its origin to the 15th century, when a number of [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] and some [[mongols|Mongol]] tribes united to establish the [[Kazakh Khana ...es|Turkic]] groups live together in a rural setting and not as a result of modern immigration. {{Citation needed|date=April 2017}}

| related = [[Turkic peoples]] The '''Karachays''' are a [[Turkic people]] of the [[North Caucasus]], mostly situated in the [[Russia]]n [[Ka

...ns reside in the former [[Soviet Union]], primarily in the now-independent states of [[Central Asia]]. There are also large Korean communities in southern [[ ...g the same as "Koryo-saram") to refer to ethnic Koreans in the post-Soviet states.<ref name=Byong/> However, the [[Sino-Korean vocabulary|Sino-Korean]] morph

...20, 2010<!-- - 1:18pm-->|url=http://www.eurasianet.org/node/60892}}</ref> Turkic-speaking peoples in [[Xinjiang]] Province in China also refer to members of In the censuses of the now independent states of the former Soviet Union, the Dungans, who are enumerated separately from

'''Armenians in Central Asian states''': [[Uzbekistan]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Tajikistan]] and [[Tu ...he first, acting as interpreters for the Russians (as many already spoke [[Turkic language]]s), consuls and businessmen for the emerging oil industry.<ref na

| related = [[Turkic peoples]], [[Gajal]] ...s: Inferences from Y-Chromosome Analysis]</ref> Greece, Brazil, the United States and Canada. The Gagauz are [[Orthodox Christians]]. There is a related ethn

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...nificant diaspora populations are Kazakhstan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Arab states (especially Jordan and Iraq, where they are mainly descendants of people wh ...a). There are also a span of Nakh placenames in the North Caucasus outside modern Nakh territory, particularly in [[North Ossetia]] and [[Kabardino-Balkaria]