Kazakhs
The Kazakhs (also spelled Qazaqs) are a Turkic speaking people who mainly live in the Ural Mountains and northern parts of Central and East Asia (most of them live in Kazakhstan, but also parts of Russia, Uzbekistan, Mongolia and China) in Eurasia. The Kazakhs emerged in the 15th century from an amalgam of Turkic tribes and of Mongol tribes.[2]
қазақтар
قازاقتار qazaqtar | |
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| Total population | |
| c. 16.5 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| 22x20px Kazakhstan 13,012,645 (2021)[1] |
Kazakhs Media
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One of the first mentions about Kazakhs. Excerpt from Sigmund von Herberstein's "Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii, 1549
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Женшина-казашка в свадебном наряде на лошади
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Kazakh eagle-hunter, 19th century
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Distribution of the Kazakh language
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A Kazakh wedding ceremony in a mosque
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Population structure of Turkic-speaking populations in the context of their geographic neighbors across Eurasia.
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Muhammad Salyk Babazhanov – Kazakh anthropologist, a member of Russian Geographical Society.
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Kazakhs in Xinjiang, China