Abylai Khan
Screex Abylai (Abylmansur) - an outstanding statesman, politician, diplomat, unifier of Kazakh lands. He was born in 1711. His grandfather, also named Abylai, came from the noble generation of Chingizids Zhadig.…
Political portrait of Abylai Khan
The XVIII century entered the history of the Kazakh people as the era of Ablai. Among his contemporaries such remarkable figures as Tole-bii Alibekov, Kazbek-bii Kazdauisty, Kart Kanzhigali Bogenbai, Abulkhair,…
IN SEARCH OF A HOMELAND. WHERE DID THE ANCESTORS OF THE HUNGARIANS COME FROM?
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Hungarians celebrated the "Millennium of the Homeland", i.e. the thousandth anniversary of the Hungarians' arrival in the Danube basin. The fishermen's bastion…
KIPCHAKS: AN ETHNOS AND ITS NAME
The term "Kipchak", known in medieval Arab-Persian historiography, changed its content in the course of history: in the VIII-XI centuries it was an ethnonym of a tribal community, then, starting…
Origin of the Nyman people
The Kazakhs trace their ancestry … from the people of the Turks. … The Turks are known by many names, but we are from the Uigur branch. Shakarim Kudaiberdy-uly. Genealogy…
Abu Nasr Al-Farabi — Kipchak of Otrar
On the outskirts of the Assyrian city of Haleb, where the route of the Great Silk Road passes, a lonely, poorly dressed, elderly man stood timidly, leaning on his staff.…
Modern Kazakhs and the Kipchak heritage
The Kipchaks (Kipchaks, in Old Russian chronicles - Polovtsians, in European sources - Kumans) were a Turkic-speaking people, mainly engaged in nomadic cattle breeding and crafts. The ancestors of the…
On the Naimans who inhabited the territory of Mongolia in the XII — early XIII centuries
In the XII century the territory of the Mongolian steppes was inhabited by a number of tribes - Hamag-Mongols (indigenous Mongols), Tatars, Merkits, Oirats, Kereits, Naimans. To begin with, we…
Kazakhs under the Dzungarian yoke
The Oirats constituted the left wing tumen (zun gar) of the Mongol army. In the middle of the XVII century nomadic Mongolian-speaking tribes of Oirats (Dzungars), in response to the…
The Dzungars and their nomadic khanate
In 1680 Galdan Boshogtu Khan annexed East Turkestan to Dzungaria. At the beginning of the XVII century in the territory between Sayano-Altai and Tien Shan, the Dzungar Khanate emerged, which…