Kazakhs - Wikipedia
WEBThe Kazakhs are the most northerly of the Central Asian peoples, inhabiting a large expanse of territory in northern Central Asia and southern Siberia known as the Kazakh Steppe. The tribal groups formed a powerful confederation that grew wealthy on the trade passing through the steppe lands along the fabled Silk Road. [44]
Kazakhstan - Wikipedia
WEBKazakhstan, [b] officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, [c] is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe. [d] It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbekistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, with a coastline along the Caspian Sea.
Kazakh | People, Religion, Language, & Culture | Britannica
WEBSep 7, 2024 · Kazakh, Turkic-speaking people inhabiting Kazakhstan and the adjacent parts of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. They speak Kazakh, a northwestern (Kipchak) Turkic language, and are predominantly Sunni Muslims. They are the second most numerous Turkic-speaking people in Central Asia after the Uzbeks.
Kazakhstan | History, People, Map, & Facts | Britannica
WEB6 days ago · Kazakhstan, largest country in Central Asia. It is bounded on the north by Russia, on the east by China, on the south by Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea, and Turkmenistan, and on the southwest by the Caspian Sea. It was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union and became independent in 1991.
Kazakhstan - Culture, Traditions, Cuisine | Britannica
WEB4 days ago · Kazakhstan - Culture, Traditions, Cuisine: Kazakhs, probably more than any other Central Asian people, show the impact of nearly two centuries of close contact with Russians. Unlike Central Asians to the south of them, Kazakhs look more to Russia than to Islamic countries for inspiration in the post-Soviet period.
Culture of Kazakhstan - Wikipedia
WEBModern Kazakh culture is mainly characterized as a synthesis of Tengrian nomadic and Islamic and European elements. Nomadic elements derived from predecessors, such as the Huns, First Turkic Khaganate, Golden Horde and Kazakh Khanate. Nomadism largely shaped its peculiar music, clothing, jewelry and oral literature.
Ancestral Origins and Admixture History of Kazakhs
WEBJul 12, 2024 · Abstract. Kazakh people, like many other populations that settled in Central Asia, demonstrate an array of mixed anthropological features of East Eurasian (EEA) and West Eurasian (WEA) populations, indicating a possible scenario of biological admixture between already differentiated EEA and WEA populations.
Kazakhstan travel - Lonely Planet | Asia
WEBKazakhstan. Asia. The world’s ninth-biggest country is the most economically advanced of the ‘stans’, thanks to its abundant reserves of oil and most other valuable minerals. That money has transformed the capital Nur-Sultan, on the windswept northern steppe, into a 21st-century showpiece with a profusion of bold futuristic architecture.
Kazakh | The Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies
WEBKazak, or Kazakh, is a Central Turkic language spoken natively by 12 million people in the Kazakh Republic, as well as by significant populations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the PRC, in Mongolia, in Uzbekistan, Turkey, Russia, Afghanistan, and …
National Tourist Portal about Kazakhstan
WEBEverything about traveling in Kazakhstan - tours, attractions, visas. Professional guides, translators, everything for comfortable tourism in the cities of Kazakhstan.