the Kazaks

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• Kazaks — Kazak may be a transliteration from native languages into English of the following terms:* Kazakhs ( qazaq ), an ethnic group of Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and Turkey * Qazaq (Journal) a Kazakh language newspaper published in the early 20th… …   Wikipedia

• Jēkabs Kazaks — Jekabs Kazaks was born on February 18 1895 in Riga. He studied at the Riga City Art School between 1913 and 1915 and the Penza Art School during World War I, (1915 1917). Kazaks style contained elements of Impressionism, West European Old Masters …   Wikipedia

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• Culture of Kazakhstan — Kazakh food preparation began to develop in the 13th century. T …   Wikipedia

• Kyrgyz language — language name=Kyrgyz nativename= ky. кыргыз тили, قىرعىز ٴتىلى region=Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Xinjiang (China) speakers=3,136,733 (1993) familycolor=Altaic fam1=Altaic [ [http://www.ethnologue.com/show… …   Wikipedia

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• Karakalpakstan — ▪ republic, Uzbekistan also spelled  Kara Kalpakstan , or  Qaraqalpaqstan , also called  Karakalpakiya , Uzbek  Qoraqalpoghistan        autonomous republic in Uzbekistan, situated southeast and southwest of the Aral Sea.       On the east… …   Universalium

• Turkic language speakers — As a branch of Altaic, Turkic is a big group of languages and has about 10 million speakers in China. Turkic languages in China consist of two groups: the first includes Uighur, Kazak, Sala, Uzbek and Tatar, and the second Kirgiz and Yugur. Most… …   Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture