Questions tagged [kazakhstan]
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What happened in Kazakhstan that its population dropped from 16m to 14m between 1992 - 2001?
I just found the image below on Google.
There is a significant drop of Kazakhstan's population. What happened in those years? I did used Google search to find more information but I did not find the ...
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When did Turkic languages emerge in Central Asia? [closed]
Consider the countries Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. They speak Turkic languages (alongside some Russian). It was primarily Iranic people (Scythians and Persians) who lived in ...
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Did all the the -stan sovereign state names appear synchronously?
-stan is a Persian suffix that seems functionally equivalent to the Germanic -land.
Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan are the sovereign -stan states.
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What was the purpose of the 1991 referendum on the future of the Soviet Union?
In 1991, the Soviet Union held a referendum about its future political structure. The results of that referendum are presented in this infographic, or here.
What was the purpose of this referendum? ...
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Are there any good sources on the history of the name for Kazakhstan?
I'm having a very hard time finding sources on the history of Kazakhstan's name changes. My query began when I read this quote:
Have you ever wished you could change your name? In 1995, the people of ...
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Kazakhstan and anti-capitalism in the 1990s
What drove anti-capitalist sentiments from Kazakh intellectuals and economists in the 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union?
It is my understanding that Kazakhstan was a low level ...