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A Brief History of the Kazak People*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Bakhytnur Otarbaeva
Bakhytnur Otarbaeva*
Affiliation:
Almaty State University, Kazakstan
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We, the people of Kazakstan, creatingstatehood on the ancient KAZAK land … Constitution of the Republic of Kazakstan

In December 1995, Kazakstan celebrated its fifth anniversary as a sovereign state, although the rich, tumultuous history of the Kazaks themselves encompasses more than five centuries. The complexity of this history is revealed in a statement by Kemal Akishev, a well-known archeologist: “Kazakstan reveals itself through territorial contact, where, beginning in ancient times, infiltration and aggression, immigration and ethnic immigration, the integration and spreading of culture, and racial and linguistic palimpsests took place.” The ethnogenesis of the Kazak people can be divided into three periods: the pre-Turkic, the Turkic, and the Turko-Mongolian periods. The development of modern Kazakstan likewise falls into three periods: the pre-revolutionary, the Soviet, and the modern republic.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , September 1998 , pp. 421 - 432
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Copyright © 1998 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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* This publication was prepared under a grant from the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC. The statements and views expressed herein are those of the author and are not necessariy those of the Wilson Center.Google Scholar

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